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OK Woman Politely Declines to Thank the Lord; Atheists Unite

By Becky Garrison

…he wasn’t a sheep. Vitsmun will be remembered—at least in the atheist moment—as the moment when the world has to face the fact we’re not this tiny percentage of people. I don’t think the numbers are growing. I think the numbers are now being counted right. Atheists aren’t afraid anymore to speak out.” But what will Wolf do next time?…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…gress. But individualized heckling, not so much. The rules of ritual don’t need logical consistency to be powerful or sacred; they need only to be generally recognized as how things must be done. To break the rules in such a moment does not simply signify bad manners—Americans are used to that. Instead, it jars us viscerally because, however unconsciously, it seems like a profanation. Nancy Pelosi wasn’t calculating that look of horror and contemp…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…han irresponsible white males running away from politics, far more. And it needs to be said again before the very idea of what the wilderness, and the “Fear of God,” really means is lost. Anything else not in the first 10 questions the readers need to know? This book will not supply anyone with any answers. Its final line is Increase Mather’s prayer “How long O Lord, how long, how long, how long?”; but I do hope it will help clarify some questions…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion efforts are compromising their faith, believing that the value system advanced by Brussels is at odds with Georgia’s relatively conservative social mores. They also worry that stronger EU ties could erode Georgia’s national identity. In one prominent example of the Orthodox faithful’s wariness, Orthodox priests led a counter-demonstration to a LGBT rally in 2013. Dozens were injured in an ensuing riot. Edilashvili reports that some 1,700 prie…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…Where, oh where, are the “budget is a moral document” types when we really need them? I don’t know about you, but I hear nary a peep about the debt ceiling standoff from DC’s Religion Industrial Complex: the Jim Wallis folks, progressive Catholics and Jews, Religion in Public Life, etc. Yet what Chuck Schumer calls the “three-ring circus” in the House of Representatives is more fraught with danger to America’s most vulnerable than any other Congre…

David Carr’s Secret to Honesty: Sin

By Daniel Silliman

…, first of all, and then readers and viewers. To be a good journalist, you need people to trust you even as you don’t trust anyone. That’s credibility. The word has even become a kind of lifetime achievement award. There’s no higher honor in the business than to be named, like Walter Cronkite, the most trusted. In the world of daily news, trust is a measure of fame and fame a measure of trust, and that’s the thing journalists want. The journalist…

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

…undermine (not just ridicule) the Bernie campaign is all the evidence you need that there is a corporate establishment firmly planted within the Democratic Party—and that it does not play fair. The Left will be at the microphone tonight, in the persons of Elizabeth Warren and Mr. Sanders himself. If they completely pass over the Wassergate mess, which I expect they will, some (and perhaps many) progressives who might have grudgingly gone to bat f…