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Huckabee on Obama vs. “Average Americans”

By Sarah Posner

…n in the United States, but has lived someplace other than the Arkansas of dirt floors, Lava soap, and fried squirrel. So where does he get his ideas of America? Someplace foreign. An anti-colonialist Kenyan father perhaps? But there’s a lot more embedded in Huckabee’s comment about Obama’s “view of the Brits” and the supposed snub of returning the Churchill bust. First, in suggesting that Obama is anti-imperialist, Huckabee intimates that the pre…

“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…ach generation die out, then create each subsequent generation anew out of dirt and the occasional spare rib? Right away, responses began appearing—see in particular this terrific critique from Natasha Helfer Parker on her Mormon Therapist blog. Parker responds in detail to some of Callister’s most egregious statements because she can’t remain silent about “an extremely harmful approach to the sexual education of our members.” Last week the conver…

The Drowning of Bin Laden

By Haroon Moghul

…in the ground on its side, the face towards Mecca. We are returned to the dirt we came from. Burials at sea rarely happen, usually only when the body could not be kept for any length of time without risk of disease. So why such a concern for the integrity of the physical body, and its return to the Earth? There are two worlds in Islam: the material world, in which we live, and an unseen world (of God and Angels and the like) that we do not enter…

Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…recently, according to The Village Voice, Scientology has been digging for dirt on Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, for satirizing the church in the 2005 episode “Trapped in the Closet.” The church allegedly hired investigators to go through their trash and to collect information about their staff. (Meanwhile, the most offensive thing about the episode was that it wasn’t all that funny.) While there is something undeniably…

Please Reverend, Do Something About the Fat People

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…u at a sharply increased risk for becoming female, and burying yourself in dirt would put you at an increased risk for turning into a carrot. Now I suppose that living in a house with electricity does probably make you more likely to use an electric shaver, but it’s still a leap to go from there to the conclusion that everyone else has a “facial hair problem.” Age, income, overall health, and ancestry can all affect body weight, and they may also…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…d over to Colorado City. That visit was really important. I grew up down a dirt road from the birthplace of Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont. What I’ve loved about LDS history is how site-specific it is: it treats America the way some people treat Israel. There is this procession of sacred sites still held sacred. Colorado City has that same heightened sense of place. I drove and walked around Colorado City and attempted to be as invisible as possi…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…rt Bragg, had a particular hatred for Jews and blacks, in addition to the “dirt people” who made up all non-white groups. And we have heard about the post 9-11 attacks on Sikhs as “rag heads” from the Middle East. But as Jack Mirkinson noted in HuffPo in the wake of the Oak Creek shooting, even news reporters have a hard time getting a “lesser-known” religious tradition right: A Fox News analyst asked if there had been any “anti-Semitic acts” in t…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…eve in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more—that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don’t know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough.” Actually, that’s not only insulting to atheists. It’s insulting to all people of faith. By that logic, Christian parents are just hunky dory with their children dying fo…

I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me

By Deirdre Sugiuchi

…and beaten and put into solitary confinement before being forced to dig a dirt pit while wearing plastic sandals. None of us was even allowed to look at them. As an adult, I helped shut my school down, but it reopened. Its current iteration is endorsed by Mike Pence. I no longer talk to my parents. I no longer consider myself a Christian, partly because I consider members of the modern white church to be ‘lukewarm,’ as the Bible puts it, afraid t…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…s marked over and over again in the course of the Caprica pilot. They are “dirt eaters,” who escaped from harsh positions on their home world, and are struggling to gain acceptance in Caprica. They struggle with the taint of ties with organized crime and with the distrust of their new government. It is a classic immigrant story, made all the more poignant by the contrast between the two brothers: one tattooed in ways which make it impossible for h…