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Qur’an-Burning Pastor Says It’s Time “To Hold Islam Accountable”

By Sarah Posner

…ceful religion. Prior to founding Dove, they pastored a church in Cologne, Germany. According to local news accounts during coverage of Dove’s 2009 anti-Muslim activities, former congregants, including Jones’ own daughter, claimed Jones and his wife left Germany after being confronted about improprieties in the church structure, including diverting church resources for profit, demanding that church members work for the church without pay, and thre…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…h one another… natural hostility will develop.” The following year, in an exchange between Jackson and Don Wildmon on the radio, Wildmon claimed the immigration issue was a conspiracy between “mainstream media” and “undocumented immigrants” to “weaken the red states.” Jackson added, “Because we know the vast majority of mainstream journalists are liberal in their theology and in their politics, they see these people as helping to vote Democrat in…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…s, other myths, other people have become not only more appealing, but also better at helping us frame our abiding questions and experiences. The photo [left] of Palestinians protesting Israeli brutality dressed as the Na’vi from Avatar, provides a vivid example [see Shalom Goldman’s: Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs]. In dangerous times, these young people identified with the heroes most able to inspire them, lin…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…d out in a commentary on Singer’s work, eliminating defectives in pre-Nazi Germany was exactly what opened the door to the Holocaust. In his book Confronting the Nazi Past, Burleigh writes, “Singer omits to mention that one of the essential elements of [Nazi] propaganda was the denial of personality to their victims.” He adds that Singer is “displaying remarkable naiveté” when he suggests that the choices that would have to be made in evaluating a…

Does ISIS Vindicate Pope Benedict’s Islam Remarks, as George Weigel Believes?

By Scott C. Alexander

…. In the midst of a characteristically erudite lecture on the relationship between faith and reason delivered at the University of Regensburg in his native Germany, the pontiff used a quote from a medieval Byzantine Emperor which denigrated the Prophet Muhammad. Benedict then compounded the problem with his implication that Islam has always suffered from a special challenge when it comes to the incoherence of proclaiming a rational faith and irrat…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…prioritization of the politically-correct policies, and justify pro-homosexual “affirmative action.” Next would come a severe drop in enlistments and re-enlistments, triggering the reinstatement of the draft. This would in turn begin a degeneration of the moral and ethical culture of the services as those with the highest personal values would be most likely to leave, being replaced, in many cases, by men whose motivation is to share a male-domin…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…posed hundreds of priest abusers and thousands of cases of abuse, and the extraordinary exploits of the alleged serial abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick broke in late summer of 2018. High-ranking Vatican official Australian Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of sexually abusing young boys in December of 2018. How long does it take to get a plane ticket to Rome? Why not convene a Zoom meeting to save time, money, and face? Any PR flack knows th…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…rching Quiverfull, I read many fundamentalists who took that charge seriously enough to counter it, and tell women that there was no such thing as freedom, but only slavery to sin or to God. Koonz’s book is a meticulous history of women during wartime Germany—the resurgence of patriarchal gender roles, their movements for and against these roles, the politicking of Germany’s versions of Phyllis Schlafly, angling for power with male leaders as they…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…roblem for gay folks, women who seek equal rights, people who believe the expression of sexuality should not be restricted to marriage and procreation, those who embrace ecumenical dialogue, and people who believe in the primacy of conscience (a hallmark of post-Vatican II Catholic moral theology). For Benedict, a Holocaust denier is welcome and these ecclesiastical outliers are not. Ironically, by recognizing Williamson as a member of the Church…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ything new (about the issues or about each candidate), but the debate’s proximity to world events and an ever-expanding financial crisis gave it a sense of urgency that extended far beyond its importance. But I did learn something new. Toward the middle of the debate Israel came up. One might have expected a short mention of Israel as America’s most important ally in a region invested with enormous energy and resources. But something quite differe…