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State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…ies that “don’t have this problem” because everything is controlled by the central government. “As contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be, I know there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth”—one of two lines in the speech that triggered the evening’s loudest and longest bursts of applause. The president surely knows that Niebuhr endorsed the theory of democracy; not as an inhere…

God-Haters Can Be Great Company

By Bernard Schweizer

…radox explored in my book. What he does, unwittingly, is confirm one of my central contentions: that people generally lack the cognitive receptor to recognize misotheism as the third stance beyond piety and atheism. Many people want to live with the comforting myth of such a simple dichotomy: people either accept the existence of God and worship him or they deny/doubt God’s existence. Meador echoes this need in his closing plea for a “cleaner, sim…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…almost like denying the faith.” Let’s Get Visceral Despite an overwhelming Republican victory, the 2010 elections were not an unequivocal victory for the “pro-Israel” voices in the GOP or in the United States. Traditional Republicans will be as strident as ever about supporting “our only democratic ally in the Middle East,” but the Tea Party candidates’ position on Israel remains an open question as many libertarians favor isolationist policies. S…

Florida Gov Cozies to Local Tea Party Xenophobes

By Julie Ingersoll

…ernor Rick Scott announced his proposed budget in front of tea partiers in central Florida, instead of in Tallahassee where the budget has been announced in the past. Clearly designed as pageantry to flatter the tea partiers, the Governor boasted some $5.2 billion in cuts (only to later have to admit that the number was inflated and that the cuts were “only” $3.5 billion). The announcement of our state budget, by the way, was held in the Eustis Fi…

Confession Fail: iPhone App Controversy Muddies the Sacramental Waters

By Elizabeth Drescher

…of the priestly intermediary in petitioning God for forgiveness that was a central element in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Here, users usurp clerical sacramental authority entirely and, as Gonzalez notes, offer spiritual reflection, penances, and absolutions to one another directly. Of course, we do well to remember that Penance is categorized as a game in the iTunes store for a reason. It’s clearly designed to gather the r…

A Divided Pro-Life Movement

By Julie Ingersoll

…e generic, accessible, mainstream, family-oriented Christianity, but which promoted political views that are not so mainstream, especially when it came to patriarchy, homosexuality, and abortion. Now, in the context of an uptick in anti-abortion activism like “personhood amendments,” an announcement from presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee that he intends to make abortion his central issue, and the recent effort by Lila Rose to “expose” the “evils”…

Is Wisconsin Union-Busting Religiously Sanctioned?

By Julie Ingersoll

…only influence… just that it is an important one. Economics is seen as so central to a “biblical worldview” that it is the focus of much of the work of leading Reconstructionist Gary North. North’s earliest work (1973), widely used as a Christian school textbook, is entitled Introduction to Christian Economics and he was founder/owner of the publishing outfit Institute for Christian Economics (ICE). North has written on the Federal Reserve, infla…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ed so that it can continue to shape the people. The idea of remembrance is central to the book’s message, and there is an educational aspect to that: The one who shares in the covenant is supposed to make known the ways and ordinances of God to later generations so that they remember as well. One striking thing about the content of the tradition is its humility. We might expect a nation’s founding stories to be of glory and victory, but Deuteron…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…billion adherents to a handful of verses cherry-picked from the Qur’an. A central component of the systematic demonization is his caricature of Muslims and Muhammad as illiterate, perverted, sexist, and responsible for slavery. Federer repeatedly described Muhammad as illiterate, suggesting he was ignorant and making no mention of the fact that literacy at that time would have been rare. In fact, Federer changed the traditional story in which Muh…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…No longer the face of man, this is the face of a wild beast. This was the central moral challenge for Stoicism, in fact—how to avoid horrific transformations like that. This metamorphosis was not playful like Ovid’s god-inspired chicanery; it was terrifying, and all too human. The wolves outside the city walls threaten the life of the city. The wolves hidden among us may threaten the city even more. These are powerful mythic tropes, both the Gree…