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Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…igins of Totalitarianism, which he called “prophetic in its application to today. . . . The destruction of civil society has always been prelude to a totalitarian government.” Indeed the Declaration harkens not only to Hitler, but to “intellectuals” and “elites” who supposedly share his genocidal ambitions: Eugenic notions such as the doctrine of lebensunwertes Leben (“life unworthy of life”) were first advanced in the 1920s by intellectuals in th…

Progressive v. Conservative Religion Writers

By The Editors

Portions of the following video are scheduled to appear on the New York Times website — ed. Has the Democratic Party scrapped its religious outreach program? Should it? Has the White House taken it over? And what of President Obama’s vaunted Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships? In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Sarah Posner talks religion and politics with Get Religion’s Mollie…

Focus on the Family’s New Face?

By Sarah Posner

…ic to FOFA’s web site increased forty times, and a million people viewed a video interview of the Tebow family by Focus on the Family’s president, Jim Daly. Earll said the interview has a “moving, powerful pro-life message, and has strong gospel message also.” The goal of the ad, she added, “was to start a new dialogue in the country, to move us away from telling people what to think, and to move people toward thinking about and reconsidering abor…

CPAC Spat Between Gay Republicans and National Organization for Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…raft Cheney 2012 sticker) is miffed that NOM has threatened to “Dede Scozzafava” any pro-marriage equality candidates GOProud supports. Watch the video: GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia at CPAC from sarahposner on Vimeo….

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…the pieces that form this alternative monotheistic religion from religious worlds that we already know gets a bit more interesting. It is rather frustrating to see all of these Catholic clichés being deployed to move the STO religion story along. It is also important to note that the body—and not just Zoe’s body—is an important element of the plot of Caprica each week. This week, we begin to understand that for the Taurons, tattoos are not simply…

Fundamentalist Purity Purges

By Randall Balmer

…s on the internet, “some odd group that is not really interacting with the world. And rightly so, because we are not using our gifts and trusting God’s Providence that brought us to this point of our awareness.” Michael Milton, president of Reformed Theological Seminary, was not amused. Waltke submitted his resignation, Milton (according to Inside Higher Ed) prayed about it and then accepted the resignation. Milton also characterized his school as…

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…to return to the same friends, frustrations, and, ultimately, the same destructive drug use that led him to incarceration. On the outside, one day he hit a tragic low: he was denied his usual refuge at the local Salvation Army in Baton Rouge, which had provided him housing when he was unable to make his rent payments. Faced with his persistent drug problems, the shelter refused him. “I gave up,” he told me, “and looked up at the sky and said, ‘Lor…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…dition, Austin attorney Brian Russell, whom board member Cynthia Dunbar recruited to run for her seat, lost his race to a moderate Republican. Dunbar, who is retiring, is a dominionist and has said public education is evil. Another conservative, Ken Mercer, is facing a serious challenge from a pro-education candidate in the fall election. Next year, just in time for the textbook review, the far-right Christian conservatives may no longer hold a ma…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…here. For coverage of the story from the Times go here. Panel 6: Watch FW videos here. Panel 7: Adelson’s financial status in 2007, can be found here. Quote from the Forward. Panel 8: Quote from the Dutch documentary program Tegenlicht about the Israel lobby in the USA. View for free online. (Quote appears at 10:21). More information on Christians United for Israel here. Page 3 Panel 1: Stats from Parade magazine. Panel 2: Veto list taken from he…

South Dakota Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Urges Pastoral Endorsements

By Mark Bergen

…owie certainly sees it that way. A state Senator from Rapid City, Howie is running proudly as “The Tea Party Republican.” It’s blazoned all over his campaign website. And his positions follow the now familiar anti-establishment tropes of the Tea Party. His platform centers on his promise to be a one-man state border patrol—keeping government out, and God in. For Howie, the ability for pastors to voice political opinions is a basic Constitutional r…