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Roy Moore’s Presidential Ambitions and “Biblical Law”

By Julie Ingersoll

…y movement; earlier this year, was awarded the “All American Award” by the Central Texas Tea Party. Moore’s underlying philosophy of law is that only God and the Bible can be the source of moral authority. Moore has long been involved with the work of the Christian Reconstructionist group Vision Forum, including serving as one of the speakers for its Witherspoon School of Law. The occasional four-day seminar on biblical law (open only to men, by t…

The Great Disappointment: When the World Fails to End on Schedule

By Randall Balmer

…end of the world. When I was writing my chapter on Billy Graham’s visit to Central Park in September 1991 for Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, a group of Korean evangelicals were excitedly proclaiming the end of the world on October 28, 1992. On Good Friday 1878, Charles Taze Russell of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, gathered a group of his followers on the Sixth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh to await their translation into heaven. Russell later denied bein…

Dalai Lama: “I Am a Marxist, But Not a Leninist”

By Tsering Namgyal

…educated Taiwanese students went back and ran their country. The Taiwanese Central Bank or the equivalent of Federal Reserve Board, for instance, was for decades run by economists trained at the University of Minnesota). Basking in the inspirational afterglow of the meeting, students at the post-meeting reception chatted vigorously with their friends. “He has a very cute personality,” the 22-year-old philosophy undergraduate who asked the Tibetan…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…f God making? Who is it harming? In one of his books, Kaufman writes, “The central question for theology… is a practical question. How are we to live? To what should we devote ourselves? To what causes give ourselves?” He argues that theology that does not contribute significantly to struggles against inhumanity and injustice has lost sight of its point of being. I can’t know if God exists, but I do know the word God is operating in the world, run…

Devil’s Bookmark: We Do Not Deserve God’s Anger

By Bernard Schweizer

…t.” Wood’s novel is just such a juicy, delectable stew. Many of the book’s central ideas circle around heretical views on religion. But contrary to its title, the book is not a straightforward piece of literary God-hatred (what I have termed misotheism). Instead, the protagonist, Tom Bunting, is at once an anti-theist when he identifies himself as a “rebel… against inherited religion”; he’s a plain atheist when he affirms that “I don’t believe th…

Omar Ahmad: Muslim, American, Cowboy Boot Aficionado (1965–2011)

By Wajahat Ali

…echnological world in which we live. He held high-level positions at Grand Central (now Google Voice), Netscape, and Napster. He once said that when the order came to close Napster as a file sharing service, he was the one who had to “pull the plug.” Despite his technological wizardry, he was firmly committed to building his community the old-fashioned way, by getting to know you. He says on his website, “If you ever have questions regarding who I…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ficult path that leads toward enlightenment. Then, of course, there is the central image of Christianity: a dead prophet who has died an agonizing death. It is interesting how many times the image of a cross is highlighted in coverage of ground zero, usually a nicely cropped shot of the ruins of steel girders. Though in good Protestant fashion, this is a cross without a dead body. What we want, I believe (and here I may betray my own religiosity)…

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis? [Updated]

By Jay Michaelson

…ich the possibility of amending the record, of righting one’s wrongs, is a central theme. But of course, there is no amending the record once Troy Davis is dead. The various hangmen in Georgia have not cited Scripture as justification for killing Troy Davis, who probably did not commit the murder of which he was convicted. But they may as well have. American moral values are largely derived from religious values, and those values come from the Bib…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…ian and Muslim, with both heavily influenced by their roots in traditional African faith. According to a recent Pew Forum study, Christians even hold a slight majority with 50.8% of the population. Both Muslims and Christians in Nigeria today are prone to varieties of secularism; in particular the rapacious capitalism that finds its base in Nigeria’s petroleum economy. The divide between the rich and the poor can be evidenced in every part of the…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…y eyes, I can nevertheless see clearly. Yes, 37 million Americans know myths when they see them. That’s because we live in one. Our myth says religion is still central to our lives, and, hey—is that the line for the Wired in-store wind tunnel over there?…