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Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…ly recoil into paranoid isolation. I knew that the European Union’s border policies had not magically erased centuries of unresolved intercontinental grievances, because everyone knew that. But what I did not know until it happened to me is that we are all susceptible to the contagion of our own country’s particular policies and dominant discourses about borders. I had grown up walking easily in and out of Mexico along the pedestrian corridors of…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…n? It’s very scary for Muslims right now. In the United States, we look to policies and examine—is there racial bias in these policies? Stop and frisk in the United States. Mass incarceration in the United States, where race is really the factor. I’m trying to argue the same thing, that targeting Muslims as terrorists in this country has been really problematic, rather than looking to the root causes that underly terrorism. The scary thing is we d…

The “Spaghetti Dinner” Clause That Launched The Latest Religious Freedom Suit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…directly underneath a church’s roof, could be subject to nondiscrimination policies if those events are advertised as open to the public and, as it clearly noted, if they are “secular.” The guidance in no way requires churches, as religious entities, to change existing policies around gender identity. During worship services and all other explicitly religious events (which, yes, would include a spaghetti dinner worship service), the churches that…

Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil

By Peter Montgomery

…rogressive policies are not only wrong but evil, and supporters of liberal policies are not only political opponents but enemies of God. Two days after the November 2010 elections, Barton, Newt Gingrich, and Jim Garlow (who runs Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership group), held a conference call with pastors to celebrate conservative political gains. On the call, Garlow and Barton asserted a biblical underpinning for far-right economic polici…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ny religious resonance at all—such as the efficacy of supply-side economic policies, or the idea that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al Qaeda—are likewise successful partly because of this conservative cognitive training in the rejection of mainstream media and the cultivation of other sources of information, like Fox News at first, but also now websites like Breitbart, 4chan, Infowars, and others. The goal of “fake new…

Nonviolent Resistance in the West Bank: A Review of Budrus

By Ira Chernus

…onfronting us with the possibility of choosing a different set of national policies toward the Middle East conflict. No one can, or should, compel us to choose new policies. That would be the very opposite of nonviolence in the Gandhian sense, since it would deny our essential freedom. But feeling compelled to recognize that we are complicit in the evil, and that we must make a choice one way or the other, is the very essence of nonviolence. Watch…

Islamophobia v. Islamo-comedy

By Hafsa Kanjwal

…slam in this manner is not new. It is preceded by eight years of misguided policies towards the Muslim world by the Bush administration. The message of fear without any sort of redress lowers our rationality and brings us to a point where we believe simple slogans like “us versus them” and “you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists.” In this sharply black and white world, violations like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Gharaib suddenly become rationaliz…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…heir views of partisan warfare; from the “border sciences” influenced Nazi policies of race and space to the preoccupations with miracle weapons and Götterdämmerung that defined their experience of war and defeat. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? The first is that nearly everything that can be written about the Third Reich has already been written. Because of the vast and influential nature of Germany both before and d…

On the ELCA’s Historic Shift to Include Gay Clergy: Reflections of a Self-Exiled Lutheran

By Eric Reitan

…the church would be to embrace the message of exclusion that current ELCA policies convey. And so, as a way to protest that message, I would refuse to leave. But because I am straight, the only way I can clamor at the gate in solidarity with my gay and lesbian loved ones is to deliberately step outside. The ELCA policies are discriminatory, but they discriminate in my favor. They do not exclude me because of who I am. And so, because I am straigh…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ton, DC this week, American religious right supporters of Putin’s anti-gay policies, led by the World Congress of Families, held a press conference to talk about their 2014 summit which will be held in Moscow in September. Speakers from the WCF, the conservative Catholic C-FAM, and Concerned Women for America praised Putin’s policies, including the prosecution of Pussy Riot, and dismissed criticism of the increasingly anti-democratic Putin regime…