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Religious Differences Are Real (and Tolerance Can Be an Empty Virtue)

By Stephen Prothero

…long the way. I think the rant goes back to my college and graduate school days, when I repeatedly heard from professors that all religions were different paths up the same mountain. That sentiment never made any sense to me. I had Jewish and Muslim and Christian and atheist friends, and none of us was under the illusion that we agreed with each other. Still, we seemed to get along just fine despite (and perhaps even because of) our differences. W…

Christian Cults and Vampire Zombies: Stake Land is Scary and Smart

By Nick Street

…hing, you might be temped to pass on Stake Land. But like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Let the Right One In, the brilliant reworking of vampire tropes by Swedish novelist-screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist, Stake Land upends many of the expectations moviegoers are likely to bring to a genre film. It also makes grimly imaginative and occasionally audacious use of some of the religious and political themes threading through contemporary American…

New Pope Accused of Conspiring in Kidnapping

By Nicole Greenfield

…LGBT rights and his flagrant attacks on women to see the contempt. In the days leading up to Argentina’s legalization of same-sex marriage in July, Bergoglio labeled the push for equality “a destructive attack on God’s plan” and deemed adoption by same-sex couples a form of discrimination against children. And then there are the issues of abortion and contraception. “A child conceived by the rape of a mentally ill or retarded woman can be condemn…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…sts who view all these events through the prism of prophecy and the end of days. The two camps, through the work of Hagee and others, have long been friends of convenience, to no good end for the Israelis and Palestinians, or, for that matter, the world. Hagee is probably the world’s best known, most politically connected Christian Zionist. (He recently signed on to Rick Perry’s “solemn assembly” coming up in August, an event sandwiched between CU…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…do so out of deep love and religious conviction,” and that they “spend our days caring for, learning from, and serving those whom many in our society would prefer to forget.” So, apparently, if you want to turn a lot of poor, elderly people out on the street, you have to allow the Little Sisters to refuse to let their insurer provide contraceptives to their employees. The effort to make the Little Sisters the public face of the case has been so ex…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…nt republic of Yugoslavia, a country whose socialist-era days were clearly numbered. Three ethnic parties, representing Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and Serbs, swept the election and formed the new seven-member presidency. The dream of Bosnia as a multicultural, multiethnic model of tolerance and coexistence for the rest of Yugoslavia—and Europe—had started to unravel. On June 25, 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. A bri…

Are Christians Theologically Prepared to Accept Torture?

By Sarah Sentilles

…flecting Sign,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2007) 3. Steven C. Caton, “Coetzee, Agamben, and the Passion of Abu Ghraib,” American Anthropologist 108, no. 1 (2006): 120. 4. Joanne Wypijewski, “Judgment Days: Lessons From the Abu Ghraib Courts-Martial,” Harpers, February 2006. 5. Mark Danner, “The Depositions: The Prisoners Speak,” in Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, (New York: New Yor…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…as well. In the US, as has been reported numerous times over the past few days, prominent media figures like Tucker Carlson have promoted the combination of the two narratives, also known as “White Replacement,” publicly for years. In 2021, Carlson said on his show: “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace t…

Noah vs. 1929 Epic Noah’s Ark

By Gwynne Watkins

…tion appears to be out of print. I’m going with what we know about both films from critics and historians, and that’s actually quite a lot. Noah’s Ark is usually referenced today in conversations about the hazards of filmmaking, particularly in Hollywood’s early, unregulated days. Michael Curtiz was a famously rude and possibly sadistic director. He shot the flood scene below by cramming a few hundred unsuspecting extras on a soundstage and dumpin…

Mark O. Hatfield: A Personal Remembrance

By Randall Balmer

…gram in southern Oregon. Our small group of students had spent a couple of days on the Oregon Coast, and on our way back to Ashland we stopped for dinner. Hatfield was conducting a meeting with constituents in an adjacent room, and the director of our program, called the Oregon Extension, stopped in to introduce himself. Seventeen years later, I interviewed Hatfield in his Washington office for a PBS documentary on Billy Graham. As the cameras wer…