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Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…combat this conspiracy he announces a federal crackdown on “wokeism” and “cancel culture”—a violent one, if necessary, if his invocation of “second amendment rights” here is any indication. In another truly stunning section Scott claims, with clear anti-semitic undertones, “We are Americans, not globalists,” while at the same time winking to Christian Zionists by naming Israel as the only ally worthy of American support. ‘They won’t go too far’ i…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…ourse around deplatforming, free speech, alleged censorship, or so-called “cancel culture” remains so mired—as I believe it has long been—in inadequate philosophies of speech and language. While certain corners of legal scholarship have addressed with nuance the ways in which speech and meaning function in the world, and how this should inform interpretations of the First Amendment, the current media and political discourse around deplatforming an…

Atheist Richard Dawkins Swings to Anti-Trans Right in Grasp at Broader Intellectual Relevance

By Heron Greenesmith

…now exploiting this issue.” The American Humanist Association withdrew its 1996 Humanist of the Year Award from Dawkins for the Dolezal tweet, writing that “Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values.” American Atheists responded as well, led by Alison Gill, Vice President for Legal and Poli…

What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

…the intensely hostile reaction I got from her and my sister when once, ca. 1994 in Colorado Springs, my in fact not-very-rebellious ca.-fourteen-year-old self answered an almost-certainly-Christian Wal-Mart greeter’s question about what we were there to purchase by quipping, “Boring Christian music.” I could have endangered someone’s salvation, you see! Even now, I roll my eyes at the memory. And for all Shellnutt’s concern over addressing abuse…

The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

By Josh Parks

…antebellum South. But it can also be seen in evangelical resistance to the 1619 Project, in hagiographies of twentieth-century missionaries to Africa and South America, and in nostalgia for the social norms of the 1950s. These shared values explain why some evangelical Disney fans feel not just ignored but betrayed when Disney makes even the smallest changes. VanBoskerck laments the prospect of WDW being “taken away” from his family if he continu…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…also a Roman numeral. V=5, I=1, C=100. Using gematria, we find that Vic’s number is 5+1+100, or 106. So whose name adds up to 666? Most biblical scholars believe the beast was the Roman emperor Nero. Nero’s title in Latin was Caesar Nero. The equivalent in Greek, the language of Revelation, was Kaisar Neron. When transliterated into Hebrew, the Greek name became Resh, Samekh, Qoph, Nun, Vav, Resh, Nun. Let gematria do the rest. Resh=200, Samekh=6…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…in Israel and the US, are legendary. The former Chief Rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of many Middle Eastern Jews, said, among other things, that Palestinians “should perish from the world” and that “it is forbidden to be merciful to them”; of non-Jews in general, he declared that “Goyim were born only to serve us.” Despite comments like these, his funeral last October was the largest in the country’s history, with 800,000 Israelis attending…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…estioning Zionism as central to Jewish identity. Rabbi Brant Rosen, who for 17 years led the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois, recently stepped down from his pulpit, following a summer of protest against the Gaza war with the left-wing Jewish Voice for Peace, on whose Rabbinical Council he serves. (Compared to J Street’s 800-plus-member Rabbinic Cabinet, JVP’s two-year-old Rabbinic Council has just 50.) Rosen told me he…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…t “morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan,” lives in a “one of a kind,” 19-chimneyed mansion in the heart of Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood conservatively valued at $14.3 million. And he is waited on by three nuns who live in a nearby coach house—very Downton Abbey. • Seattle Archbishop James Sartain, who is currently in charge of making sure that the naughty nuns of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious don’t spend too much time wor…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…for myself, my family, and colleagues. So I’ve been trying to draft a short 800-word article for Religion Dispatches, as my attempt to make sense of this current moment, not because I chose this as an anthropological project, but here I am. Here I am listening to Trump’s transition team drop words like Muslim registry or that there is a precedent for internment camps in American history. The news that the KKK has been dropping their newsletter off…