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Obama’s Supposed “Religion Dilemma” and American Exceptionalism

By Sarah Posner

…of the election. “To see issues related to religious or cultural issues as central to the 2010 outcome is, we believe, a mistake,” they wrote in their analysis of the PRRI data. Yet, in a crucial caveat that these two say portends an intense culture war confrontation between the right and the left lies a potential battle among Democrats: how to react to the right’s smears that Obama is neither a genuine Christian nor a genuine American. Dionne and…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…nine co-sponsors in the Senate and was introduced in the House by Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt, who had 50 co-sponsors, including now-Minority Whip Eric Cantor, now-Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Rep. Mike Pence, who is thought to be considering a 2012 presidential run. Partners In Arms: Militias, the Religious Right, and Biblical Law The militia movement and Christian Reconstructionism both contend that our current civil government,…

Theocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing influence of the Reconstructionist movement, and how its vision became central to the contemporary religious right’s political agenda. Mind you, I’m not minimizing the crazy idea that homosexuality should be punished by death — and the point should not be lost that these Christian Reconstructionist views have contributed to the anti-gay movement — but Christian Reconstructionism is much broader, advocating a very specific ordering of family, c…

Radicalization and Religion, Cont’d.

By Julie Ingersoll

….’” That line was lifted and made the title of the post which made it more central than it really was and also slightly changed its meaning. In a thoughtful and helpful reply James Scaminaci questions the notion that radicalization might not be related to “religion,” showing how an important component of radicalization is a “worldview based in religion: a battle of Good versus Evil and an apocalyptic view” and I certainly agree with him. Indeed, I…

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…s of victims who have lost their homes and loved ones line up patiently in freezing refugee camps to receive meager supplies of food and water. There are no reported cases of looting anywhere in the country, even as thousands of Tokyo blocks are left without power during scheduled blackouts. When the hungry refugees receive food, they share it with their neighbors. Cold, injured, bereaved, suffering from the onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder…

Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

…entually the missionaries embrace this metaphorical model of religion. The central female character, Nabalungi, takes Cunningham’s stories literally, and against the backdrop of her blighted village sings a wrenching song about reaching the storied paradise, Salt Lake City, where, she imagines, the warlords are friendly and the Red Cross is on every corner. Her belief inevitably leads to despair, as she learns that the paradise Cunningham has spo…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the majority of believers and seekers. And, it seems, too, that Facebook has taken up much of the chat about “football,… good schools,… local politics,” and other matters that Beck sees as the “main draw” of routine ecclesial practice in days gone by. Yet the sneak peek Beck offers of his own research appears to undermine the argument. Not Enough…

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…

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…

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”…