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Every Homo Reptilia is Somebody’s Sister: Doctor Who Part VI

By Gabriel Mckee

…rd Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Are we to read this order optimistically, or cynically? After all, the Doctor of all people should realize how a simple message can be distorted over a millennium. When the Silurians awaken, will they find that this religious message has been carried down faithfully, or twisted, even inverted? The brief opening narration of this episode, in which the Silurian leader speaks from a thousand years in the future, t…

From Bad to Worstest: How Liberals Should (And Should Not) Talk About Values

By Daniel Schultz

…at’s less a liberal or conservative flaw than a human problem. We’re all a bit myopic, morally speaking. With all this in mind, there are bad, worse, worser, and worstest ways to talk about values (I’m assuming a liberal perspective in what follows): Bad: “As a Christian…” Nobody gives a shit. You just lost 90% of your audience in three words. Worse: “I am a ‘values voter’ too. I am pro-the-entire-life, not just before birth!” Nobody gives a shit,…

Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”

By Daniel Schultz

…re years removed and wield it appropriately. On a scale of 0-5 Satans, we rate Josh Protas’ statement a 0 as incomplete. Caitlin Dewey gets half a Satan for accurate but glitchy reporting: Jodey Arrington gets two for probably sincerely-held but wrong (also hard-hearted) interpretation: And Mollie Hemingway receives three for partisan tendentiousness: (Featured image: from a Soviet propaganda poster. Lenin quoted 2 Thessalonians approvingly.)…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…the third and fourth generation of those who hate me…” (Exodus 20:5). Happily, Yaweh was safely chained in the basement of the pop-Christian unconscious, the Old Testament, which most Jesus kids I knew seemed to view as a dusty scroll of Sunday-school fables about ancient Israelites, periodically interrupted by a yawn-inducing list of begats or the heaven-sent Genocide of the Week. But the New Testament had its problems, too. The more I read, the…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…throw anything on and a bit of eyeliner, and everyone would think I’m really girly. I also appreciate some of the boy aspects of me cause I am 100% boy, plus extra girl. That’s the weird thing. I’ve just sent off my dad’s genome and my genome and we’re going to compare them. But within it, there will be the transvestite, trans—well, I call transgender the whole group. And then there’s transvestite and transsexual, which I believe are the same thi…

No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…g a companion CD of all that audio because it would have made the book really pricey. In the end, Duke Press graciously agreed to house a selection of the audio on their website. So now, when readers get to the parts that talk about the music in depth, they can go and listen to it while they are reading. It is a pretty cool feature I think. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? That talking to the dead is somehow the same a…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…rchive—reveals that he arrived at the conservative Christianity of The Family only after ESP and alien encounters had failed him. But “liberal,” for the most part, yes—Hughes was a far more ardent foe of the Vietnam War and a champion of various Great Society programs even as they eroded in the ’70s. But, through The Family, he also became a champion of Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipino dictator for whom he helped organize a National Prayer Breakfast…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…an an entertaining service? Jones: Our guides for starting a Sunday Assembly are mostly resources and recommendations not rules. One recommendation is that the host rotates. No host can do more than three Sunday Assemblies a year. This prevents someone from seeing Sunday Assembly as a chance where they get to stand up and deliver a talk once a month. We found that if people who come to speak happen to have books to sell, we don’t find it’s approp…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…o do. When I walked away from fundamentalism, I saw hope disappear, fading bit by bit until I was left with a lot of big talk, a whole lot of bluster. It’s painful to live without connect-the-dots faith. It takes so much courage, I can’t tell you. The audience rises to their feet after this call to support the de-converted—the atheists are very supportive, I will say that. I lose count of the standing ovations throughout the convention. There is a…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…New Upper Class and How They Got There) in order to make a broader, socially analytical point. It seems as though Brooks wants to give Harold and Erica some spark, some spunk, some redeeming qualities. But, in the end, they seem nothing more than strange satires of Brooks himself. Harold (the white American man who grows up in a comfortable middle-class family), is Brooksian in the obvious sense, while Erica is born into poverty, grows up in a ho…