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Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…et of a Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory. Failing to understand the crossover between new age spirituality and conspiracy theories, many assume that those who present as hippies are necessarily left-wing, an assumption that only enables the political Right to deny responsibility. Almost immediately as details of the Pelosi attack emerged, a conspiracy theory about DePape emerged that he and Paul Pelosi were somehow sexually involved. Over the weekend…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…asymmetrical truthiness that Andersen identifies in religion is actually a better explanation for that asymmetry than the primary influences he identifies in academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism. The Christian Right as it developed in the 1980s to my knowledge never cited postmodern relativism or New Age ideas to defend its alternate reality. Indeed, it often inveighed against them. Andersen doesn’t, in other words, follow the chain of inf…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mological configuration” that “eventually prevailed in the modern period.” New Math, New Science, New Protestants The point is that the really seismic changes at the Vatican all came in the 15th and 16th centuries, the age that just so happened to encompass the Protestant rebellion and the emergence of modern science at once. But by the 17th century, mathematics—and specifically mathematical physics—achieved a dominance that overturned the main in…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…lies: Another scenario assumes that you might be tempted to lecture an intoxicated panhandler about epistemology and divine experience: These particular interactions may seem contrived, but hostility is a common experience for many non-believers. Atheos is coming at a time when Americans continue to largely view atheists as “moral outsiders,” despite abundant research demonstrating that secular societies are the opposite of the hedonistic dens of…

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

…adults turn away from evangelicalism. But they’ve got power. Real power. FOX News. Politicians. Celebrities. Billionaire donors. Think tanks. Political action committees. Colleges and universities. Dynasties. Global political reach. Networks of social media, conferences, publishing. And their reality seeks to force itself upon the rest of us—whom they view as lost sinners, heretics, non-believers, witches, and infidels. Evangelical theopolitics is…

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

By Susannah Crockford

…s self-published book (written under yet another name, Loan Wolf) and his experiences with extraterrestrials and UFOs, psychedelic use, and the purpose of meditation in raising consciousness. He goes through the gamut of New Age themes: fractal energy; frequencies; solar cycles; personal ascension leading to galactic ascension; chakras; the universe; light codes; overcoming negative emotion; 100th monkey collective; the flower of life and sacred g…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…ber, “Militia Members at Lynchburg Protest May Have Broken the Law, Legal Expert Says,” WFXR, July 1, 2020; Franklin County Board of Supervisors, Meeting Minutes, February 15, 2022, 79. [75] Rachel Mahoney, “Lynchburg-area officials mum, dismissive of claims militia have acted illegally,” The News and Advance, July 11, 2020. [76] Mahoney, “Lynchburg-area.” [77] Halifax County Board of Supervisors, Meeting Minutes, September 8, 2020. [78] William C…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…ginia. Soon thereafter anti-CRT pieces appeared at The Federalist and on Fox News. By June, stalwarts of the Christian Right such as Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council had launched their own attacks on CRT. In short, a closer look at the origins of the conservative attacks on CRT and school curricula reveals how they were incubated in the Council for National Policy, the network fou…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ian, but in many ways we have made the pilgrims themselves characters in a new faith. The New England settlers constitute both the Genesis and Exodus of the American scripture. The pilgrims are celebrated as the originators of the American ideal, embodying religious liberty, thrift, industriousness and individuality. Historical fact is secondary to mythical power. The Mayflower leader and first governor of the Plymouth Colony William Bradford, amo…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ian, but in many ways we have made the pilgrims themselves characters in a new faith. The New England settlers constitute both the Genesis and Exodus of the American scripture. The pilgrims are celebrated as the originators of the American ideal, embodying religious liberty, thrift, industriousness and individuality. Historical fact is secondary to mythical power. The Mayflower leader and first governor of the Plymouth Colony William Bradford, amo…