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Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…ervescence,” could lead individuals to act with emotional abandon, what we today might call extremism. To threaten the totem, particularly in front of large groups (such as on national television!), is to call into question the foundations of society. “When a belief is shared unanimously by a people, to touch it—that is, to deny or question it—is forbidden,” Durkheim wrote. People kill or die for their symbols: The soldier who dies for his flag di…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…at in some form has morphed into extreme vetting from certain areas of the world.” Trump’s incoherence has a history. Last December, the candidate promised to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Shortly before that, he proposed the creation of a registry of American Muslims. Since then, Trump’s been all over the place. He’s talked about ideological testing at the borders, a ban on immigration from “any nation that has been compromised by…

Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

…e laud them for excellence in pretense. But it wasn’t so good for the real world. All the world might be a stage, and humans merely players, but Jesus’s critique seemed to suggest that some were acting for the purpose of deceiving their fellow actors, or even God himself. The critique of hypocrisy as a rhetorical weapon is indigenous to the Christian tradition, even to the point of being serviceable in the critique of other Christians. A famous Am…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…e brave, when we are in fear of the powerless. A society that lives in fear cannot be the land of the free. The film The Promise, reminds us that a hundred years ago, an American ambassador, who had no connection to the Armenian people, stood for American ideals in front of one of the world’s great powers. Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regi…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…n slavery in the US “two hundred years ago” because there are “more slaves today than ever” in the history of the world—namely due to sex trafficking. Carson rambles for minutes, calling for institutionalization of the “criminally insane.” A panel of Christian School advocates and leaders assembles next. Barry McKeen, Administrator at Grace Christian School near Tampa, Florida, describes how NBCNews published an article about his school’s anti-LGB…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ollowers of Van Til (including his former students Bahnsen and Rousas John Rushdoony, and Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North) adopted this “presuppositionalism” as a doctrine, with all its implications for the role of religion in political life. Recapturing Institutions for Jesus Reconstruction writers regard the history of Protestant politics since the early years of the Reformation as having taken a bad turn, and they are especially unhappy with…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…uncil’s first-ever tour of Israel scheduled for this fall, Perkins described it as a “unique, one-of-a kind tour,” giving participants the opportunity to “explore the land of the Bible and the roots of our Christian faith.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Senator Rick Santorum, both Republican presidential candidates, will accompany the tour, as will Fox News’ Todd Starnes. The trip, Perkins writes, will allow travelers to see “the spir…

Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…ial legal exemptions to its tiny ultra-Orthodox minority decades ago, is struggling with these questions today, as its ultra-Orthodox community grows to a significant chunk of the population.) Independent thinking is essential for a democracy, as are the rights of independent-minded communities. Still, even independent thinkers have to recognize their debts to the herd. The slippery reality, of course, is that being sheeplike isn’t always bad. Som…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…way, summarizing the mood felt by many at NatCon. “He’s a lot better than Trump, because Trump is incoherent; he’s infantile rage; he’s gonna drag down the party. [DeSantis] is more conservative, articulates his positions effectively, and is more effective in dealing with the other side.” In his opening speech, Peter Thiel cautions against “the temptation on our side” to focus on “nihilistic negation” of “woke insanities” and other critiques of th…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…to produce a child? Well, of course, there are so many more possibilities today in terms reproductive technology than the Torah, Talmud, or our medieval and early modern codes could have imagined! Certainly, some things possible in our world had been sufficiently anticipated by earlier Jews that we have a basis for discussion; there were forms of birth control mentioned in the Talmud, for example. And there are even intimations of the questions r…