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#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…the past, whether at organizing unions or fighting for equal rights, they seldom bet their future on politicians. They fashioned their own institutions — unions, women’s groups, community and immigrant centers and a witty, anti-authoritarian press — in which they spoke up for themselves and for the interests of wage-earning Americans. The story emerging about #occupyWallStreet is not about the protest itself, but that the NYPD has used excessive f…

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Unemployed from being a Burden to
the Rich

By Lauri Lebo

…The result, though, is it makes it easier to legally shoot people. Now, I bet you see where this is going. The column is so terrific it really needs to be read in its entirety. Seriously. Read it. But Argento does see a potential downside to the plan. Of course, some people may object because of all of that stuff in the Bible about caring for the poor and being your brother’s keeper and such. They may point to the Sermon on the Mount, in which Je…

Pagan Soccer Mom Wins Blog Contest Despite “Biblical Womanhood” Opposition

By Julie Ingersoll

…What was supposed to be a competition over quality work turned into a race between the Christians and the Pagans. But what happened next might be even funnier. A number of the Christian bloggers, appalled at what their “sisters in Christ” were saying, started posting supportive comments and even apologies on the Pagan blogs, and voting for them in the competition. In the end, Mrs. B came in first; six of the top ten blogs were Pagan/Wicccan; sever…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…cy of groups to polarize at the extremes and deadlock.” This is also precisely how I believe interlocutors with sharply differing theo-political views should be attempting to engage one another: in respectful small-scale conversations, not by tossing fusillades across the barricades. It interests me that the very same Anglo-Protestant tradition I fault for its bad habit of prolix argumentation contains within it a sub-tradition that reflects and…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…ce, it makes them ideal surrogates for the growth of human organs. If you believe in intelligent design and techno-determinism, then maybe this is just indicative of God’s progressive sense of irony. There are a lot of historical and modern developments that older religions could not have accounted for. But eisegesis and wishful thinking are only so convincing. God delivering the Ten Commandments to Moses at Sinai can just as well be read as comin…

The Perry v. Bachmann Primary at Liberty Unversity

By Sarah Posner

…of God. Believers must become visible demonstrations of the faith and actively help determine national direction. Those in attendance expressed deep concern about the present direction of our country. Our trust must be in God and we need guidance from Divine Providence. For anyone who has watched the religious right since the 1970s, there’s a palpable sense of deja vu. Or, Robert Wilonsky put it at the Dallas Observer, “Party like it’s 1979.” Exce…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…s place, which is according to legend, the Garden of Eden, now looks like hell,” and the like. Which I always felt to be kind of unfair. Yes, the Garden of Eden story in the Bible is thought by most legitimate scholars to originate in much earlier Mesopotamian legend, which means that the Garden of Eden would be somewhere in Iraq. But—and I admit to a certain literalism here—that early version doesn’t necessarily share the same theology or have th…

Can a Submissive Wife be President? Michele Bachmann says Yes

By Julie Ingersoll

…the most important the articulation of the complementarian position (I’ll bet five bucks Bachmann has this on her bookshelf), authors John Piper and Wayne Grudem argue that it violates women’s essential nature to be in authority over men in any situation. Apparently (since she is running for president) Michelle Bachmann does not agree with their position entirely—although functioning as president with the “covering” of the authority of her husban…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…states—five of which now possess abortion-related constitutional reforms—held governor elections. PRI politicians won five posts, pushing out the PAN in three states. Beyond backroom dealings, Mexican politicians know which public maneuvers will draw the Church’s good graces. Before his election, then PAN candidate Vicente Fox waved banners with the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s icon of the Virgin Mary, and later on, his daughter assisted in plan…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…horized places—homes, schools, street corners, campuses, government—where religion wields major power. A few weeks ago, Mattingly criticized RD for running my story on a recently-installed, openly-gay Mormon congregational leader in San Francisco. Get Religion insisted that this story on Mitch Mayne wasn’t really news, and that it was bad journalism to claim that Mayne’s call to serve indicated “evolving” views of homosexuality in Mormonism, becau…