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Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…behavior of the religious right, whose support was widely perceived as instrumental in Bush’s victory. I remember that the BBC crew looked at me much the same way that these people are looking at me now. Trying to determine on which side of the cultural divide I stand. The British don’t understand, I’ve been told, why Americans are so divided. They find this issue enthralling. And they watch me curiously. In a way, I suspect, they find our fundame…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…success story by some socially conservative websites in America as well as Russia…. Indeed, Austin Ruse at C-FAM called it a “huge victory for the natural family” and has been gleefully gloating about “the angry response from the sex activists.” A joint letter to the president of the Human Rights Council from several UN offices expressing concern over the language, saying that it “falls short of requiring States to respect, protect and fulfil wome…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, dismissed video documentation of anti-gay brutality in Russia as part of a gay-propaganda hoax; some violence might be real, he says, but that is most likely perpetuated by gay Nazis. American conservative activist Cliff Kincaid published “Putin Poses as Defender of Christian Civilization,” a commentary critical of the World Congress of Families for its embrace of former KGB agent Putin and the Russian Orthodox Chur…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…the student narratives Greenhalgh examines reveal the damage the anti-fat crusade inflicts in heart-breaking detail. Fat students of various colors, classes, and cultural backgrounds tell of parents warning them that they’ll never find love, success, or happiness unless they trim down. Some of them recount incidents of vicious bullying at school—e.g., a young man was called “fat, ugly piece of shit” by his peers; a young woman had trash hurled at…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…, the music has been the most underserviced aspect of all the media on us. News stories mention the same songs, and make no note of what they sounds like. They still leave Arjun out of their writeups because he has a Hindu name, and Shahjehan Khan, our guitarist, is constantly referred to as our lead singer. KF: In response to BU: I think the best approach for getting lost in the message and media circus surrounding Islam is to look at Taqwacore o…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…prisons prompt calls for an investigation by the U.S. State Department and headlines in the likes of TIME Magazine, New York Times the Daily News, ABC, and many more. Jeffrey Goldberg, who can hardly be accused of being anti-Israel, called Tariq’s beating possibly “more consequential” than the horrific execution of his cousin, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, because it was committed by “agents of the state,” and therefore evidence of a “state failure”—a fail…

Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God

By Anthea Butler

…he Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism and RD’s “Selling the Good News.”] For these Word of Faith proponents, the emphasis was placed on an almost fanatical belief in speaking and living the Word of Faith in line with scripture. These teachings in turn became foundational for many in the movement, including Hagin protégées Kenneth Copeland, Frederick K. C. Price, and John Osteen. Many mainline Pentecostals embraced these teachings at Cope…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…e the Republican Party. There were two long-term consequences for our fake news world. First, theologically and politically conservative Christians learned to distrust the proclamations of the supposedly neutral media establishment, just as they had grown to suspect the methods and conclusions of elite experts like scientists or historians. And second, they learned to seek the truth from alternative sources—whether a church sermon, Christian media…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…, I wrote this book called The Family, and there’s a chapter called “The F Word”—the F word, of course, being fascism. That chapter is not about the contemporary moment of this Christian nationalist organization, which is the oldest and arguably most influential in Washington. Its focus is mostly global and international. Where I really had to contend with the Family’s fascism was in the postwar era. The organization was founded in 1935, but in 19…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…in such a way that it now signifies a commitment to the creationist narrative over and against the evolutionist narrative. Thus one finds the ichthys symbol inscribed with the word “truth,” as well as other modifications, including designs that show the Darwin fish eating the Jesus fish and vice versa….