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Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…cies that, due to a trick of quantum physics, can only move when no one is looking (even if, as the title of “Blink” indicates, they’re only unobserved for a moment). The Weeping Angels are pretty darned scary, and “Blink”—written, incidentally, by new show-runner Stephen Moffat—was widely acclaimed, winning two BAFTAs and a Hugo. Needless to say, their return was much anticipated. There’s a bit of a parallel in this episode between the Angels and…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…nspired in young girls. In all of this, there was this view that teenagers looked to the Beatles as a kind of replacement for religion. And in worshipping the Beatles, they lost interest in the Bible and teachings of the church and the lessons of their parents. From our eyes today, in 2018, it just looks like they’re these four guys with bowl cuts and these neo-Edwardian, tight collarless suits. But there really was a lot of talk back then about h…

Which is the ‘Real’ Reality?: Doctor Who Part IV

By Henry Jenkins

…could read The Dream Lord’s dialogue as a kind of embarrassingly revealing look at the things The Doctor doesn’t say, and therefore more unguardedly honest than his conversations with Rose. The Dream Lord’s comments could therefore be read through a moral prism as unburdening the Doctor of thoughts he would normally feel guilty about expressing. Does the Doctor have a guilt-ridden sexuality or romantic feelings he believes are inappropriate? The D…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…But that description obscures their theology. “It doesn’t allow a critical look into their theology, what is their purpose, what is their interest in Israel,” she said in an interview in which she shared many of the report’s findings. The term Christian Zionist, said Schlesinger, “is very confusing” to Israelis. “What we’re showing in the report is they’re not Zionists if they wish for the destruction of the Israeli state. Zionism is one thing and…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…g, so to speak, their fashion sensibilities: a religious injunction not to look upon women who aren’t covered from head to toe. The Bedford bike lane, a popular route from central Brooklyn to northern Williamsburg and the bridge, brought a wide variety of the borough’s cultural diversity through the heart of the Hasidic enclave. But the hipsters, who take their bikes as seriously as their Ray Bans, have led the fight to get it back. All month, bic…

When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful

By John Stoehr

…t be a good thing, as a lack of manners and etiquette and decorum tends to look like authentic strength, and, when that’s set side-by-side with kindness, authentic strength usually wins though it’s a lie. The real problem, West might as well have said, isn’t that Texas is corrupt. The real problem isn’t that the state’s government failed its people. The real problem is carpetbaggers and their “New York values” coming down here, making us look bad….

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…ou (hint: promise candy), and act as if they’re all yours. Remember: large numbers of Muslims walking through bucolic scenery is especially reassuring to Hungarians. Incidentally, if you try to order a TSA uniform and your name is, say, Muhammad, the least of your problems will not be flying again. Actually, many of these ideas could end badly. For you. So think twice. Stop, drop and Tootsie Roll.™ Hooded young men with candy, after all, push arme…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…e United States and elsewhere. Many non-Muslim Americans expect Muslims to look a certain way (i.e. Brown), and what American politicians and news pundits call a “complaint” when white Mormons do it becomes “terrorism” for racial and religious minorities. The hashtags #YallQaeda, #VanillaISIS and the rest have proliferated on Twitter to criticize the bland characterization of an armed occupation of a federal building as a “peaceful protest.” But t…

Should Satanic Temple Have Threatened Netflix Over Baphomet Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series?

By Joseph Laycock

…aimed it’s “kind of a coincidence”: “If you look at Goya paintings, if you look at a lot of the tarot cards, or the Alistair Crawley [sic] iterations of him—because there’s hundreds and hundreds of iterations of him, he’s always seen with his people around him and it’s more of like a father figure kind of thing. So depicting his children with him, that kind of stuff, and those kinds of elements are all kind of the same.” But looking at the two ima…

‘Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom’ Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the ‘Nice’ Charade?

By Diana Butler Bass

…d by those liberals at the University of Virginia. Youngkin made Democrats look mean. They’d keep your kids in masks and force them to read books that were upsetting. Mean Democrats want your children to feel bad about things like slavery and racism. They hate you and your safe suburbs and your history. Basically, Youngkin said all the same things that Lana Theis and others like her are saying, but he did it nicely. He didn’t outright call anyone…