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As a Religious Studies Professor I Disagreed With the Hamline Firing — But Now I’ve Changed My Mind

By Kate Blanchard

…the more uncomfortable I became with my own instincts. A main reason for that discomfort is that, it seems clear from the reporting, López Prater is not a Muslim. Were this an intra-Muslim debate, the university would likely have had a harder time adjudicating between parties. In my opinion, Muslims can legitimately step into this argument, but it’s really not for non-Muslims to say what Muslim students should or shouldn’t consider disrespectful….

Bishops’ Attempt to Deny Communion to Biden Will Backfire Even More Spectacularly Than Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…its alike is the notion that all Catholics are sinners. The dubious logic that follows is that all are equally unworthy to receive communion. Conservatives would say that some are a little more unworthy than others. They sniff piously and say we should all shiver in our shoes as we approach the altar. Please, my Irish grandmother…where do they get these notions? Communion is not a litmus test of orthodoxy nor a prize for theological correctness. I…

David Barton’s New Get Out The Vote Effort

By Sarah Posner

…. Back in 2004, the GOP paid Barton to travel to churches to tell pastors that that they could legally give guidance to their congregations on how to vote without crossing the Internal Revenue Service line that prohibits houses of worship from endorsing particular candidates. At the time, the political reporter Walter Shapiro wrote of Barton’s efforts at the Potter’s House Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, “the Republicans are banking on churches s…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…ofessional life as someone who has government contracts, and I’m not sure that what we saw in the episode fully prepared us for such an abrupt shift in her perceptions and actions. The episode’s opening shots already hint at the relationship between media, memory, and self-perception as we get flickering glimpses of multiple consciousnesses being reborn in the new mechanical body, as we burst from static into images which are memories of Zoe’s lif…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…an effect world weather”! Astrology, of course, is a superstitious belief that the movements of stars and planets can affect our daily lives here on Earth, a belief that has no basis in science. Some people—including, apparently, the South Dakota legislature—still take it seriously, although most view astrological forecasts as light entertainment… And we mustn’t ignore “thermological” causes. Do the wise SD legislators realize that thermology is t…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…d it. I detect a kind of creeping clericalism in the friendly suggestions that a woman be Pope or that sisters and priests who labor in the vineyard are the real McCoy even if they have no decision-making power. Of course a woman ought to be considered for the highest position in any religious group, and of course the good people who do the daily work of feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, and standing up to unjust powers are spiritual stars….

Can Atheists Simply Ignore Theology?

By Eric Reitan

…ent with experience—remains viable regardless of what science teaches us. What this means is that in a broad sense a theistic worldview is empirically unfalsifiable… just like a naturalistic one. Simply put, we don’t test our holistic worldviews the way we test whether the emperor is naked or clothed. We test them by trying them on, trying to live them out, and then reflecting on how well they work as organizing principles for individual and commu…

Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Laying on of Hands

By Lauri Lebo

…s are upon Thee.” Which is interesting, because even as Jindal is praying that he doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing, he’s spurning the guidance of the experts. Jindal has been embarking on a plan to build a series of coastal barriers to keep the oil out of marshes surrounding Barataria Bay. However, he refuses to take guidance from environmental science experts, who fear the $360 million barrier project would be ineffective and could even poss…

Kagan: Establishment Clause Is “Hard”

By Sarah Posner

…to this issue – and there seems to me great virtue in this approach – is that in order to prevent that from happening, or to prevent it the other way – where the state does something in order to advance Establishment Clause values and then somebody comes in and makes a Free Exercise claim. Either way, what the court has stated is that there needs to be some “play in the joints.” There needs to be some freedom for government to act in this area wi…

HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…o formulated Nazi ideology “weren’t reading the Gospels.” Well, actually, that’s not exactly the case, but I’ll get back to that. Another Huffington Post writer and science blogger of the Primate Diaries Eric Michael Johnson responded to Klinghoffer’s recycled misrepresentation of history with a column of his own, pointing out that there is no link between Hitler and Darwin, despite intelligent design/creationist attempts to say otherwise. And he…