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

By Wajahat Ali

…you ever have questions regarding who I am or what I believe, please feel free to ask me. It will be through open dialog that we will get to know each other!” He leveraged his good-natured spirit in politics, and was elected to the city council of San Carlos, and from there, to the mayor’s office. In that position, he did what every American mayor does, he fought with the Firemen’s Union. In all his activities, he remained committed to his faith….

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…

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

By Sarah Sentilles

…we take God’s mystery seriously, then we can never know. I think there are better questions that we can be answering: What does a particular vision of God do to those who submit to it and to those who won’t submit to it? What difference is my version of 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 caus…

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

By Tsering Namgyal

…larly in the academia, following the global financial crisis. The dialogue between the Dalai Lama, frequently criticized by the Chinese government as a closet separatist, and the students, which lasted for nearly three hours, allowed the Tibetan leader to give Chinese students a very different impression than what they are used to hearing from their own government. I know that one day they will be leading China. (Twenty or thirty years ago US-educ…

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

By Randall Balmer

…n the book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. All of that computed to sometime between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844. With the help of a publicist, Joshua Himes, Miller garnered thousands of followers; at least fifty thousand according to some estimates. Many, like Camping’s followers, left their jobs and dispossessed themselves of earthly goods in preparation for the end. So fevered were the speculations that Horace Greeley, publisher of the New…

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…

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…values, and relationships, changing one’s mind is a daunting prospect. The central point of contention—the existence of God—is most fraught of all, not to mention starkly binary. “In philosophy of religion you do have this gap—either God exists or not. There’s no middle ground,” Parsons says. However, even philosophers bent on keeping their core beliefs can help move discussions forward. As in other subfields, much of philosophy of religion consis…