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Einstein’s Religion, Darwin’s Agnosticism

…arved himself to death. Turing, who had been instrumental in cracking Nazi codes during the Second World War, “was later imprisoned and chemically castrated for admitting to a consensual homosexual affair.” It is hard not to hear a subtle barb against religion-inspired sexual mores in such a gruesome story. Which is what makes the work of John Polkinghorne so startling and suggestive. Tippett devotes the last chapter to him, and recalls hearing hi…

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Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?

…ggie Gallagher—who also worked with the National Fatherhood Initiative—“to promote marriage”; and “gave money to writer Mike McManus to support marriage promotion, while also giving money to McManus’ organization, Marriage Savers (‘a ministry that equips … local congregations to prepare for lifelong marriages …’).” Horn was, coincidentally, a founding board member of Marriage Savers. In addition to the NFI grants, in 2006 the organization received…

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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

…onal ascension leading to galactic ascension; chakras; the universe; light codes; overcoming negative emotion; 100th monkey collective; the flower of life and sacred geometry; the divine is within; be your own guru; astrology; and so on. He advertises his now-defunct website starseedacademy.space, and promotes Life-Wave patches, a multi-level marketing scheme that he claims cured his father of cancer and liver disease. A starseed is a person who b…

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How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

…ng Jesus conveys the same conservative politics, but with different racial codes. O’Reilly served as an Executive Producer for the film, which was made by Ridley Scott’s production company as Fox was absorbing National Geographic in 2015. Importantly, this was one of Scott’s first projects after receiving substantial criticism for hiring white actors to play Egyptians in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). In response to this criticism, Scott hired act…

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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

…disenfranchised and subjugated again (to get a quick sense, Google “Black Codes”). White Supremacist leaders developed a predictable chorus as a PR strategy: the violence was a justified Southern white defense of their liberty against the aggressions of greedy “carpetbaggers” from the North and corrupt Blacks who ruled in the South. These outside agitators were the real instigators and had disrupted otherwise peaceful race relations since “slaver…

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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

…m the Rune Stone using such techniques as dowsing rods for divining hidden codes within the runes. Some of these new narratives describe large settlements of Christian Vikings who lived in Minnesota for centuries following Leif Eriksson’s arrival in Vinland. There is a ready market for such wild speculation on cable television, but Krueger notes that these tales of ancient European settlers effectively marginalize America’s actual original inhabit…

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Muslim Women and Family Law

…ning that several predominately Muslim countries are updating their family codes to reflect pushes for equality and fairness. But this assumes that it’s the laws that lag behind society, which just isn’t always true. Yes, there are men and women who want family laws in their countries to change. But that doesn’t mean society at large wants this, too. Many men are reluctant to dismantle the patriarchal interpretations that work in their favor, and…

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Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

…ties, barricading themselves within a bunker because they believed that barcodes on food packaging are Satanic. In a statement, Christian dairy tycoon Boyko-Veliky explained the crosses: Russian Milk is forced to place bar codes on its packaging, as without this, we will only be able to sell our goods at farms, not in stores. . . . By placing the cross on the bar code, we want to demonstrate our stance: We are with our Lord, Jesus Christ, and not…

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Hate the Sinner, Love the Gun

…formula: “guns=security=freedom” continues to be one of the primary moral codes of our nation, and violence and the threat of violence will remain a righteous tradition for future generations. Arguments about social policy and Constitutional rights, however, miss an essential point about the religious stakes in the decision: guns are sacred to many Americans, and like other powerful religious objects they can either be a supreme source of comfort…

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