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New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…visit to his longtime friends at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine. This led to the famous walk on the beach that George W. Bush says “planted a mustard seed in my soul,” and to his supposed rebirth as an evangelical Christian. That was the accepted narrative in the media and throughout the evangelical world for years. But Graham later told a journalist that he does not remember the encounter; and to another said he does remember a w…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…really about the “feel,” as you say. The most successful Eden in terms of number of people convinced would have to be Joseph Smith’s Eden, in Independence, Missouri, and he was convincing because his followers considered him a prophet. Nothing’s supposedly weaker in philosophy than an argument from authority, yet nothing seems to work on people better… For sure. Smith was reported to have invincible charisma, but not being privy to it, I had to r…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…don’t start fighting fire with fire, they’re just going to keep doing it. Maine’s ‘moderate’ Republican Senator, Susan Collins And Junior was not the only one calling for an authoritarian, fascist response to their leader’s conviction (by a jury of his peers) by threatening to jail his political opponents. Claiming that Trump was the victim of a “Soviet-style show trial,” Fox News’ Jesse Watters, vowed “we’re going to regain our strength, and the…

As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights

By Mary E. Hunt

…teed up as the Court’s next targets. A Catholic theocracy seems to take stronger and stronger hold through the Court and other parts of government as white Christian nationalism grows. Justice Sonya Sotomayor, in dissent on the recent Maine case that allows government funding for private schools, wrote, “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build.” No wonder the Bishops are po…

We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory

By John Stoehr

…olitical polarization wasn’t as strong as many, including me, expected. In Maine, for instance, Susan Collins won reelection, because lots of Republican voters chose her over her opponent, but also voted against Trump. That’s split-ticket voting, which was thought to be extinct. It isn’t. And here we are. (Control of the Senate, by the way, is still up in the air. There are going to be two run-off senate elections in Georgia. The outcome will dete…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…nd. Steve Campbell, a missionary supported by the Greene Baptist Church in Maine, is under investigation by Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) following his venture into a reservation inhabited by the isolated Hi-Merima tribe in the southern Amazonas. FUNAI, the government agency on indigenous affairs, stated that the missionary could be charged with genocide for exposing the tribe to potentially deadly microbes. A second-generation m…

Down to the Wire for Marriage Initiatives

By Peter Montgomery

With marriage on the ballot in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, voters are experiencing a barrage of deceptive ads by the National Organization for Marriage as well as robo-calls recorded for NOM by Republican rising star Senator Marco Rubio. NOM made a last-minute plea for cash for its GOTV effort, saying “your contribution will mean the difference between God’s definition of marriage and ‘one man and one man’ as the law of the land”…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a conservative Jew. He then offers clues as to why he targeted fellow Norwegians, even though he claims to lov…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…for myself, my family, and colleagues. So I’ve been trying to draft a short 800-word article for Religion Dispatches, as my attempt to make sense of this current moment, not because I chose this as an anthropological project, but here I am. Here I am listening to Trump’s transition team drop words like Muslim registry or that there is a precedent for internment camps in American history. The news that the KKK has been dropping their newsletter off…