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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…cation, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourg…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…mily, insists that charges that the James Dobson-founded Colorado Springs, Colorado-based multi-million dollar media-ministry hates gays is unfair and unfounded. Fryrear, who sat down for an interview with citizenlink.com’s Jennifer Mesko, said that those allegations are “grossly inaccurate and patently unfair portrayal of how Focus on the Family and LWO (Love Won Out) feel about those who identify as gay or lesbian.” Focus apparently felt the nee…

Gaining Except-ance: Army Chaplain Who Says “I Don’t” to Same-Sex Wedding Should Not Be Reprimanded

By Patrick Hornbeck

…same-sex marriages. These and similar cases are a subset of a much larger number of disputes about whether, when, and to what extent a person’s or organization’s religious beliefs can excuse them from their ordinary legal responsibilities. But military chaplaincy has long been understood as a profession where the usual rules about the interaction between religion and civil liberties do not always apply. The U.S. has had military chaplains since t…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ir multi-national, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character. That said, the numbers of nations and people that we mention are sourced solely on the claims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). Internatio…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…Perry’s 2012 campaign. Even the octogenarian C. Peter Wagner traveled from Colorado to attend. Another common mishap is to characterize various apostles and prophets as “self-appointed” or “self-anointed.” In fact, in the networks established by Wagner, there is a process of mutual recognition of apostolic and prophetic leadership, as people having been called by God. And while self-appointment may be true for some opportunistic leaders in the wid…

A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

By Seth Dowland

At a small group Bible study in suburban Colorado Springs, circa 2008, a group of 20-something white professionals gathered to discuss Mark 10:21-25. In this famous parable, Jesus instructs a rich man to sell all that he has and give it to the poor. The rich man dejectedly walks away, unwilling to comply. Jesus tells his disciples—in words many Christians can recite by heart—“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for som…

The Most Important Religious Category of the Primaries, the Non-Religious, Doesn’t Break Down as Cleanly as You Think

By Daniel Schultz

…th the young voters who did show up, but the youth vote continues to be outnumbered by older voter turnout across the country. Even that might be somewhat generous. As USA Today notes, Sanders won a smaller share of the under-thirty demographic than he did in 2016 in several states. It’s worth noting this shift in a religion-and-politics column because young voters also tend to be less religious voters. By any measure, the younger an American adul…

Ordered To Remove Her Hijab, Army Sgt. Felt ‘Religiously Raped’

By Paul Rosenberg

On March 6, Sgt. Cesilia Valdovinos was at a chapel at Fort Carson, Colorado, for a suicide prevention briefing when her superior, Command Sgt. Maj. Kerstin Montoya took her aside and demanded that she remove her hijab, which, according to her faith, she is not supposed to do in public. While some details of the incident—first reported by the Colorado Springs Independent—are in dispute, these basic facts are not. It wasn’t the first anti-Muslim e…

Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ce Cakeshop Last year’s most prominent dispute was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case involving a baker, Jack Phillips, who refused on religious grounds to make a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December 2017 and issued its 7-2 ruling in June. Disappointing partisans on both sides, the Court neither affirmed that antidiscrimination laws apply across the board, n…

Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…in December: neither Phillips’s freedom to exercise his religion, nor the Colorado Commission’s treatment of his beliefs, occupied much time. (Tellingly, it was Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored the Court’s opinion in this case, who first homed in on the commission’s proceedings.) As those who followed the case will recall, the justices devoted much of the argument to a detailed, and sometimes lighthearted, examination of the question of whet…