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When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…by the French censorship bureau because of a politically blasphemous headline. General de Gaulle, former French president and World War II hero, had just passed away in his country home in Colombey-les-deux-églises a few days after 146 young people perished in a huge fire that burned down a nightclub. Hara-Kiri Hebdo had come out with the headline: “Tragic party in Colombey: one dead”. Resurrected soon after the ban under the new name Charlie Hebd…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…is simply groundless. East Africans are among the most adept users of cell phones in the world. The plot twists at the end raise questions about the racial politics of the show. Only a threat of American violence saves the villagers from the tyranny of the local warlord. Only the ingenuity of the white men provides Africans a useful religion. The dewy-eyed boys from Utah share the genius of Joseph Smith: the Yankee spirit of invention. The musical…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…Dawkins was not quite as clever as he supposed. Writing for The Guardian, Nesrine Malik proposed that if we: insert pretty much any other group of people instead of “Muslims” and the statement would be true. Malik addressed Dawkins directly: You are comparing a specialised academic institution to an arbitrarily chosen group of people. Go on. Try it. All the world’s Chinese, all the world’s Indians, all the world’s lefthanded people, all the world…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bout us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here? If the number of partners one has, the amount of time one spends in clubs, and what kind of sexual abuse one has suffered in their lifetime makes a person gay, then I suppose I ought to turn in my lesbian card. I can count the number of sexual partners I have had in 49 years on two hands and have some fingers left over. Not because there weren’t offers, but because, as a general rule, I like to…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…up to 666? Most biblical scholars believe the beast was the Roman emperor Nero. Nero’s title in Latin was Caesar Nero. The equivalent in Greek, the language of Revelation, was Kaisar Neron. When transliterated into Hebrew, the Greek name became Resh, Samekh, Qoph, Nun, Vav, Resh, Nun. Let gematria do the rest. Resh=200, Samekh=60, Qoph=100, Nun=50, Vav=6, Resh=200, Nun=50. All the letters added together equal 666. The problem with Weick’s formula…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…vil. When a narrative legitimates evil, it must be abandoned in favor of a new one that moves people to do good (and fits the facts—in this case, the fact of Israel’s security due to its overwhelming power). It’s not surprising to see a political analyst like Beinart become the spokesman for that view. Some in that camp will take another step, with Beinart, and argue that the survival of both Judaism and Israel depend on embracing a more moral nar…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…e, more little snakes will be raised.” This week Israel’s most popular online news source, Ynetnews, published an op-ed by a rabbi citing Biblical passages as a rationale for extending the bloodshed in Gaza. The statements of Ovadia Yosef, whose recent passing was met with flattering memorials both in Israel and the US, are legendary. The former Chief Rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of many Middle Eastern Jews, said, among other things, that…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…this footprint hardly enters into today’s political conversation and that nearly everyone seems to be more or less okay with dropping $6.4 trillion—and killing at least 800,000 people—in an ineffective and counterproductive “war on terror.” When will we understand that defunding the police and defunding the Pentagon reflect one and the same struggle?) Finally, given how the practice of radical nonviolence implies a willingness to sacrifice, how m…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…done a 180 from the week before the election, where people could not imagine someone with so little experience and such hateful rhetoric could assume the presidency. And yet, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl’s questions didn’t demand that President-elect Trump respond to the growing protests against his election. Instead, she offered “softball questions” that fixated on his personal feelings about becoming president, “repeatedly minimizing T…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ched out to two of them. Carl Charles, a gay trans man and practicing attorney in New York City who spent nearly a year in church-based conversion therapy at age 15, stressed the lasting impact the treatment had on his relationships with his family, his community, and himself. He recalled that the process worsened his severe depression and fed an unhealthy amount of rage; he punched holes through the walls of his home, and often took a baseball ba…