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Flouting SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Advocates “Give The Game Away”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hat essentially asks the court to either recognize or deny the plaintiff’s central identity, the misgendering in Liberty Counsel and NOM’s briefs are crucial. And, as Stern rightly points out, that act lays bare the animus behind NOM and Liberty Counsel’s long-standing opposition to trans equality (emphasis mine): The briefs reject the very validity of Grimm’s identity in a manner that is both offensive and petty. Indeed, these organizations are s…

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The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…e a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many. Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the turning point? I make the case that one important turning point—among a se…

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Introducing ‘Draw Muhammad Day’

By Hussein Rashid

…thing. The South Park episode focused on the failure of censorship. Comedy Central, like the two buffoons from Revolution Muslim, missed the point and focused on the non-representation of Muhammad, causing the episode to be censored. The response of the supporters of Draw Muhammad Day (DMD) is not to focus on the question of censorship, but on the depiction of Muhammad. In other words, they have chosen to support the two idiots of Revolution Musli…

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Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…ysius is the old church, authoritarian and inflexible. Father Flynn is the new order, the jocular, friendly face of a Church whose pastors no longer turn their backs to the congregation. All of this is humorously encapsulated in a scene in which Sister Aloysius counsels the novice Sister James to hang a picture of a pope on the blackboard so she can watch her class reflected in the glass. Sister James doesn’t have a picture of Paul VI, or even Joh…

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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…turist and libertarian-leaning ideology all its own, is no exception. This new brand of technologically-enhanced asceticism, however, is based less on minimalism than it is on outsourcing, by building a simple life on the backs of sweatshop laborers and the unregulated sharing economy. Although he lives in Los Angeles, no one exemplifies the new Silicon Valley asceticism better than Rob Rhinehart, the software engineer who developed Soylent, a “nu…

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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…ssociation. Liberals pointed to Loughner’s opposition to fiat currency and centralized government, while conservatives pointed to Loughner’s 9/11 trutherism and anti-religious ideas. The truth was that Loughner wasn’t liberal or conservative. He was a conspiracist. His central belief was that unseen forces were conspiring to control the world. This was ultimately a religious, not political, idea. A similar case can be made about Christine Weick. A…

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Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an who killed 13 people (himself included) and wounded four in Binghamton, New York in 2009; John Allen Muhammad, the Islamic, African American “Beltway Sniper,” who, with Jamaica-born partner Lee Boyd Malvo, killed at least 10 people in the Washington DC area through the month of October 2002. Many of these shooters, regardless of race or religion, had known mental health issues. Likewise, a substantial number of the men on the Brady Campaign lis…

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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ely try to change them–particularly if you plan to try to change something central to their identity–is objectification, and therefore unethical. In any case, no matter how you slice it, proselytizing is not the same as me telling a friend they should try my favorite sushi place or arguing that, for example, voting for Republicans is harmful and unethical. https://twitter.com/robinbritton11/status/1480285942997004296?s=20 https://twitter.com/thepa…

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Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…some who reside in the Mount Vernon School District in conservative south-central Ohio. Last December she and her husband Steve accused a popular 8th-grade science teacher, John Freshwater, of using an electrostatic device known as a Tesla coil to brand a cross into Zachary’s arm [see image above]. They say the burn, which in photos show an 8-by-4-inch mark on his forearm, raised blisters, kept their son awake that night, and lasted for several w…

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Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…ercer deliberately polluting the mediasphere and thereby perpetuating what New York Times columnist Charlie Wurzel calls the “eternal culture war doomloop.” I’m aware that this is too much raw Marxism for many RD readers to swallow. I simply counter that Marx was right about many things. We Americans tend to overcompensate for our aversion to the Marxist critique by holding, against all evidence, that culture rot proceeds entirely independently of…

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