Religion Dispatches
…thing that’s interesting is that the writers don’t seem to be coming down hard on either side. Unless of course Alicia ends up getting God. But doesn’t look like she will. Curious now about atheism on TV: am off to look for more….
Read More…is trying to frame the story as one of shari’ah gone wild. Let’s actually look at the facts of the case and how the Bangladeshis are reporting it. So-called shari’ah courts are banned in Bangladesh, so this punishment does not have the sanction of the state. In fact, based on the coverage, most Bangladeshis are repulsed by this and do not see it as an expression of their Islam. It is unclear if the individuals who issued the fatwa (a non-binding…
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…e thought he could sell to a fundamentally conservative base—and decide to look elsewhere for religious community and moral guidance. Fortunately, most people rely on their friends and work colleagues, their neighbors and relatives to model what healthy, integrated lives look like. This document can gather dust without much danger to anyone. Amoris Laetitia in my view is a missed opportunity for Pope Francis to demonstrate that there is anything n…
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…ic cleansing, population transfer, slaughter. It’s ugly, but we should not look away. The Armenian population was systematically eliminated. That’s genocide. There’s no way around it. Responding to the assertion that it was a civil war, humanities professor Peter Balakian commented, in a 2006 PBS documentary, The Armenian Genocide: ‘If we are going to pretend that a stateless Christian minority population, unarmed, is somehow in a capacity to kill…
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…ay to evaluate to whom she has pledged obedience (or why), what those vows look like, or what their scope is. Barrett could have promised to install the reanimated head of Antonin Scalia on the Court, and we’d have no way of knowing. Nor can we know much of what’s been taught during Barrett’s time in People of Praise. It could be puppies, love, and the brotherhood of all mankind. Or it could be that homosexuality is a crime worthy of execution. Ag…
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…bolster their own power, prestige, status and achievement.” Yet, a closer look at the issues these two figures have championed reveals how Christian nationalism remains an animating force in the GOP’s culture wars. Mr. DeSantis recently signed Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law. The law outlaws the teaching of any content related to gender or sexuality to students “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or…
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…ine the Great that took the Russian military two years to put down. We can look back even further. When Mohammed founded Islam, he claimed to be “restoring” the original faith that Jews and Christians had corrupted. Or look at Matthew 7:15, in which Jesus warns his followers against “false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves,” thereby opening the door to centuries of infighting about who can claim the man…
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…You should hang your heads in shame today, and should take a long and hard look at yourselves and the way you try to make people other than yourself, less than human. We urge you to start a conversation, to put aside your fears and prejudice, and find the truth – we are all the same, no matter whom we love.” The decision was praised by Matt Beard, executive director of All Out, who said: We’ve seen how U.S. religious extremists have fueled violenc…
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…iendship and love and a community to be part of. So for anybody who’s just looking for something where they can meet like-minded people and have fun and do crazy weird stuff and see UFOS, look for the CE5 app, which is something Dr. Steven Greer has, or watch the movie and just get involved. Because something’s going on. We don’t exactly know what it is, but I can tell you this: it’s magical and when you do see a light in the sky, if you’re lucky…
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…ese efforts, Neiwert has built the most incisive, compelling, and accurate look at the Trump movement’s fringes through the former President’s rise and controversial final months. I had first met Neiwert when he was promoting his 2017 book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump,3 a definitive chronicle of the rise of the Patriot, Alt Right, and MAGA movements that led to Trump’s election. Neiwert’s reporting had a unique q…
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