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Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…re Caminada, he discovered that his parents and brother had died along with 800 other residents. Those who survived the flood moved “up the bayou” (as they still say in Lafourche Parish) to towns like Leeville and Golden Meadow. Today, what remains of Cheniere Caminada is a historic marker and a decaying cemetery. Beasts of the Southern Wild is not about saving the Bathtubs of Louisiana. It is about remembering them. “In a million years, when kids…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…missionaries, to as many as 3,000 students a year. This semester, more than 800 students are registered in Professor Bott’s classes. (Eleven are registered for BYU’s African-American history course this semester.) Professors at BYU routinely find themselves having to address racist and sexist content taught in Bott’s classes, and many are outraged and embarrassed by his rogue remarks to the Washington Post, say sources at the university. “Dr. Bott…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a conservative Jew. He then offers clues as to why he targeted fellow Norwegians, even though he claims to lov…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…in overt ways. Cohocton is a small town, with a population in 2009 of about 800 people. It is in upstate New York. It is not my small town, nor is it likely yours; and yet each of these places is someone’s neighborhood. This time, it is only an hour away for me. Picketing as “The Workingman’s Means of Communication” On March 2, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in response to a series of prior decisions around Westboro Baptist Church’s pi…

National Day of Prayer Is Illegal, But Courts Won’t Hear Challenges

By Andrew L. Seidel

…l pressure and coercion. But after the Red Scare and the corporate push to sell middle America religion, why wasn’t the law struck down? It’s because even though the law is unconstitutional, courts have said that it cannot be challenged. ALSO FROM THE AUTHOR When the Freedom From Religion Foundation sued over the National Day of Prayer statute in 2010 the district court correctly decided that it violated the First Amendment: “its sole purpose is t…

Paul Ryan: “This Is Not Theology…”

By Peter Laarman

…pernicious and false doctrine is that many within the priestly cult are plainly corrupt. Without going into the details—which are readily available—just how much do you suppose it has buttered the bread of countless third-rate intellectuals to go sell themselves and their “expertise” and honied media tongues to the Great Whore of Supply-Side Sheep Dip? When the priests of the official cult don’t hesitate to sell themselves for money, it’s generall…

Rape-Marriage of Nigerian Girls is ‘Biblical Marriage’

By Wil Gafney

…s of marriage that don’t require the consent of the girl. (Boko Haram also sells girls into prostitution slavery to fund their sex and terror raids and uses them for sex and menial work in their military camps. For more on the lack of response to these repeated abductions and this last massive kidnapping see Anthea Butler’s commentary.) The concept of rape marriage is not unique to these villains or their perversion of Islam. The Jewish and Christ…

Iowa Republicans Grade Newt’s “Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…ling American exceptionalism; he’s appeared at Pastors Policy Briefings to sell his book (and reincarnation) Rediscovering God in America. But how much has he really learned at the feet of Christian right luminaries? In my collection of political ephemera, I have a copy of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority Report from September 1985. In it, there’s an article and accompanying advertisement for a conference hosted by the American Coalition for Traditi…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…come “cult” images rather than mainstream, and Faces of Death continues to sell as a cult classic, even restored and set in HD. Fake images and real images. Is this all sensationalism? Perhaps so. But we are missing something much deeper if we merely end there. Why do millions of people pay to see such images? What is it, at heart, that we are looking for? Why do we want to watch? During: Visual Documentation of 9/11 September 11, 2011 becomes…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…formation. Herbalife, though, is doubly in the transformation business. It sells the prospect of bodily metamorphosis to its customers—and it sells the prospect of financial ascent to its salesforce. Of the two groups, the Members (who are also encouraged to use the products) might be the more important. After all, they’re the ones who actually write Herbalife’s checks. Fundamentally, the company sells people the possibility of making a sale. This…