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Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…e, Walker was a nothingburger, Cruz and Paul stumbled, and dear God, how many more of them are there? The New Republic‘s Brian Beutler summed things up pretty well: What you saw tonight—and the vastness of the field made this tension more vivid—are several candidates who want to hew to a new line of some kind, only to be pulled back, like the Godfather, into a morass they were trying to escape. Like Beutler says, Republicans haven’t quite figured…

Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

By M. Sophia Newman

…on appears rooted in the ethnic group’s Muslim faith, which makes them a tiny minority in the majority-Buddhist nation. The most notable participants in the violence are a movement of Buddhist monks called “969”. The movement, which is led by a monk named Wirathu, has used a nationalist stance to campaign against the Rohingya, in part by falsely alleging that they are “Bengali” illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. While the number “969…

Do Atheists Belong in the Interfaith Movement?

By Chris Stedman

…e for such conversations, but the ideal forum for it. I can fondly recall any number of incidents where I argued theology and philosophy with a religious colleague while doing interfaith work; and how, later, they told me that they actually took my perspective seriously because we had built a trusting relationship. It made all the difference that I treated them as intellectual equals—as people with respectable goals rather than just mindless adher…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…fort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Johnson, according to the New York Times, “played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a brief in support of a lawsuit aimed at overturning the election results” in four contested swing states won by Biden—a swing that would have given the presidency to Trump. He and his co-conspirators managed to convince 60 percent of the Republicans in the House. And while the Supreme Court reje…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…aluable about Faitheist is that it moves atheism away from the kind of polemic that ends up focusing on truth claims in a very literal way and so mirrors the religious fundamentalisms it would like to dismantle. A few months ago, when we were together at an interfaith conference, I posed to you the question of whether American atheism as a movement could further dislodge itself from a polemic truth claims approach by historicizing itself and narra…

Right Wingers Say “Gay” is Out, But Try Putting “Unnatural Vice” On a Bumper Sticker

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Liberty University this past weekend to map out their war on this teeny-tiny minority that apparently has the power to subvert all of Christendom. (The religious right has been touting a new report that they believe says only 1.7 percent of the population is gay or lesbian.) The first order of business was decided to stop painting the LGBT community as so darn happy — so the word “gay” is out. Instead, the new in-words to describe the community a…

Teach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…lists” as leverage against “bad girls” is a popular pastime. But endorsing misogyny is, of course, how we roll. Misogynist authoritarianism demands that women be complicit in their own dehumanization. So when black recording artists rake in millions dehumanizing black women we become willing consumers. We masochistically rush to justify and excuse. Why? Because despite all of the strong-backbone-of-the-black-community post-feminist rhetoric, bla…

Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…servatives are still waiting for the slip down that slope. They expect it any day, and so unfounded rumors of a new acceptance of infanticide are greeted as outrageous, but also long expected. 30 years later, however, it’s still an urban legend. Many people, it turns out, do not generally feel compelled by the argument that either life begins at conception or infanticide is acceptable. The typically rhetorical question, “But where do you draw the…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…opposition is softening. The UK-based religious think-tank Ekklesia is claiming that a growing number of Christian groups are now identifying as supporting gays and lesbians than in previous years. In a press release, Symon Hill, associate director of Ekklesia, noted that a welcoming religious presence has grown in gay pride parades around the world: The increasing Christian acceptance of same-sex relationships is highlighted by the image of liber…

Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media

By Chrissy Stroop

…American society, whether that be in politics, cultural institutions, or any number of other areas of life. That means doing more than simply being right about this one thing: the nonexistence of gods. It means finding partners who share our values and interests and working together to make this world a better place to live.” Clarifying that latter point, Fish noted, “Our advocacy is going to continue working to find areas of common ground with p…