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Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tifying secession. Of course South Carolina is a very different place than New Hampshire where, as Blumenthal points out, you won’t find any Confederate monuments. Maybe Haley forgot about that in the moment she was asked the question, which genuinely seemed to throw her off—but it’s also apparent that the falsification of history, which has served Republicans well at the ballot box in the party realignment decades, has become such an immovable pa…

Black and white image of Betty and Barney Hill side by side with hands clasped.

From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…, does not believe that the Hills knew what they saw. In doing so he reproduces the dynamic of the skeptical expert who, he argues, led the Hills to become spiritual seekers in the first place. In the culture of new age spirituality they found a new place to feel at home after their rejection by the establishment. Yet even in this careful retelling, they remain outside the boundary of legitimate knowledge….

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Turns out, every case of self-reported religious affiliation is trending downward: 40% self-identify as religiously non-affiliated in the Netherlands, as do 60% in the Czech Republic. The mathematicians seem far more surprised by these numbers than most religionists would be. The first and most obvious reason involves an important distinction th…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…ng an animal to be stunned before slaughter, following in the footsteps of New Zealand and Switzerland, effectively eliminating the procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims. As for the sacrificial taking of human life, every Sunday, millions of mainstream Americans partake in a symbolic ingestion of blood and body that is so common in the Christian world that one forgets to use the word “cannibalism.” For the Catholics if not…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…browsers, confident that reports of a massive earthquake originating near New Zealand would soon appear. Other believers went to sleep, assuming that they would awaken in the presence of the almighty. When the sun rose on May 21, they were taken aback. Maybe it would happen at noon. When noon passed, they settled on 6 p.m. When that came and went, some thought it might happen at midnight. Or perhaps it wouldn’t happen until May 21 was over everyw…

Are there Atheists in Foxholes?

By Andrew Aghapour

…fetimes. A second study attempted to test unconscious beliefs by having 71 New Zealand undergraduates rapidly categorize a series of 20 nouns as “real” or “imaginary.” During this study, Jacobs reports, non-believers wavered from their disbelief after being reminded of their morality. They were slower to label concepts like “God” and “heaven” as imaginary. I’m not convinced that being slower to categorize heaven as “imaginary” is evidence that ath…

Jesus Comes Out for Christmas

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…give him that. Cardy is pastor of St. Matthew in the City in Auckland, New Zealand. You may remember this church for their controversial billboards. In 2009, they put up a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph in bed with Joseph wondering how he could ever measure up to God. Last year’s Christmas billboard showed Mary holding a holding a pregnancy test. Both of those billboards were vandalized—torn down by sensitive religious types who don’t like th…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…g a home with a married gay couple for ten days. The couple was married in New Zealand.Meanwhile, the Advocate reports: According to Australian Marriage Equality, the organization leading the fight for equal marriage rights Down Under, polls show 72 percent of Australians favor legalizing same-sex marriage. In fact, the group reports today that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is leaning toward tacit support for changing law to allow for same…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…discriminatory practices” that prohibit marriage equality” in the country. New Zealand: Government apologizes to men convicted under old sodomy law The national government formally apologized to about 1000 men who were convicted for violating a legal ban on homosexual activity between 1961 and 1986. Legislation has also been introduced to expunge the convictions. Puerto Rico: Governor creates LGBT advisory board Gov. Ricardo Rossello announced the…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…being supported and disseminated by powerful media representatives on Fox News and One American News Network (OANN), along with a not insignificant number of elected members of Congress. A great deal of the concern on the part of white people is over their potential loss of status in America. This concern is being expressed in current Trumpist Republican efforts to curb access to voting by people of color and the social panic being fomented about…