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Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…. A man who’s not even alive—at least not in a way that’s accessible and demonstrable to those of us on this mortal plane—and who is, despite the release of yet another major documentary last year, almost certainly bigger than the Beatles. Despite all that, some conservative Christians are apparently one-hundred million dollars worth of concerned that the enduringly popular Mr. of Nazareth just isn’t doing it for some of the kids these days. Hence…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…urce code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most important debates and produced some of the most fruitful arguments in supp…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…to be, but if there’s any takeaway for Harris, it’s that she needs to put more money into our education system. There is a valid critique around Harris’ race, similar to that of Obama’s. Like the former president, Harris is not a descendant of chattel slavery in the US and isn’t a generational African American. An interesting question would be to discuss what scares the US so much about a candidate who is a generational African American. And yes,…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…d argue that the survival of both Judaism and Israel depend on embracing a more moral narrative. Many others, though, don’t share that concern, or at least don’t find it a primary motivation. They simply find that, being Jewish, they cannot tolerate seeing Jews perpetrate such injustice day after day. A smaller group is moved by the kind of spirituality that Lerner calls “the Left Hand of God.” Because compassion is their highest value, they focus…

Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ltra-liberal militantly homosexualist agenda forcing the highlighting of homosexuals and homosexuality on an unwilling military. This is the equivalent of the spiritual rape of our military to satisfy the most extreme and selfish cadre of President Obama’s kooky coalition. When it comes to “kooky” Levin knows his stuff. His release goes on to mimic Robertson’s past statements about gays and lesbians – and the alleged acceptance they are currently…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…800,000 a year). Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, bemoans “the liberalism of seminaries like Claremont.” In a recent post he complains, “Will Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists want to study theology at a declining, liberal Mainline Protestant seminary? Claremont’s new interfaith approach seems to undermine the transcendent claims of all faiths, and treat religion as merely a prop for the secular culture’s enchantment…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…vision for which some critics have blasted him). Zeitlin then blankets enormous moral and existential dilemmas over the Bathtub and its inhabitants. Correspondingly, Zeitlin believes that “religion deals with these big questions, and it gives you an answer, and makes people feel all right about dying.” He sees Beasts as a kind of folktale that “address[es] incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…S. Supreme Court had ruled prayer before football games and graduation ceremonies to be unconstitutional and that the practices should be stopped. “But things are handled a little differently in different areas of the country,” Scales said. “This does not need to be something that divides our community. None of the school cases that have been litigated are designed to keep anyone from praying or exercising their religious freedom.” Scales said he…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…inisters $40,000. Should we begrudge them the opportunity to save a little money? To my mind, the more intriguing suit was filed by American Atheists, who want the IRS to require churches and religious organizations to fulfill the same obligations as other nonprofit groups. Currently most nonprofits are required to file Form 990, “Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax.” The upshot is that their finances are public record. But religious gro…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…civilian casualty.” Kirshner then proclaimed that the Israeli army is “the most moral army in the history of civilization.” It goes without saying that apart from being cruel, such logic is, as many others have noted, identical to the justification used by Osama Bin Laden for the morality of killing civilians on 9/11. That is, Americans (or Israelis) elected a government that acted unjustly or criminally, therefore Americans (or Israelis) as a who…