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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

…other… 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 the comi…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…il with frightening ease. The well-documented story about the rise of Nazi Germany is as good a case as any. The German people were born neither better nor worse than people around the world. But they showed us the power of charismatic leaders in acquiescent societies, uniting the people in hatred against scapegoat groups that included Jews, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, and intellectuals. Both the Catholic Church and the Protestant “German Christi…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…rge W. Bush’s have consequences. There may indeed be babies born who’d be “better off” killed, or prisoners who “deserve” to be waterboarded or punched and exposed to hunger, cold, and snarling dogs. But the rest of us aren’t better off when morality becomes a function of expediency, be that in the name of national security or of “sensibly” getting rid of the need for all those expensive ramps for the disabled by getting rid of the disabled themse…

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

By Scott C. Alexander

…considered, and misleading. Indeed had the pope wanted to raise this issue in a truly scholarly, effective, and altruistic way, he would not have done so somewhat off-handedly in the introduction to an otherwise carefully crafted public address given to a group of scientists in Germany. Instead, he would have convened the dialogue of Catholic and Muslim intellectuals he ended up agreeing to convene only after Regensburg. I know I would have apprec…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…boys and paired them with adult homosexual soldiers. Brownshirt leaders in Germany recruited boys from the local high schools for sex. Roehm himself once briefly fled Germany for South America over a scandal involving a young male prostitute. This bodes ill for the young men who will be our future draftees. The scenario I see unfolding if we allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military is an initial period of turmoil in which members of the s…

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

By Mary E. Hunt

…akin to hiring a hitman. Enough already. They did what countless others in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have done before them: namely, to reach a breaking point and make the break. Since church taxes are collected in the cantons, one writes to the cantonal authorities and effectively ‘deregisters’ from the roster. Consequently, one cannot get employment in the church whether custodial staff or tenured professor, nor can one avail oneself of t…

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

…to transform the ethics of its non-members. This is where the resemblance between Benedict and Hauerwas ends. While Benedict is leading his church into a period of contraction through strict orthodoxy, he wants to maintain the influence of Catholic moral theology on the larger global society. For instance, the Vatican maintains its presence at the United Nations, where it opposes resolutions like the recent one in support of gay rights. We might…

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

By Shaul Magid

…aordinary. It has the highest child poverty rate and the highest disparity between rich and poor of any democracy in the world. One out of every two Israeli Arab children and one out of every three Israeli Jewish children lives under the poverty line. In most ways it is a democracy (although an “ethnic” one that often discriminates between one ethnic group, the Jews, and all other citizens). Yet in matters of marriage, divorce, and conversion, it…