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“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

…sector: forced bankruptcy in Chrysler’s case, and a very probable breakup (with or without bankruptcy) in the case of General Motors. “Too big to fail” turns out to mean too politically connected to fail: it has nothing to do with the alleged dire effects on the overall economy were, say, Bank of America or Citi or Wells Fargo to be taken over, cleaned up, and broken up by direct government action. What is most bothersome to me about the Big Con b…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…nstitute of Noetic Sciences? The faculty and administration deny that this will happen. But time will tell. What’s really at stake in the furor of criticism? What trends do they signal? Conservative schools that fight interreligious education isolate themselves behind higher and higher walls, rather like the walls U.S. embassies have to build to protect themselves from increasingly hostile populations. At stake, they say, is the unity of truth and…

Gay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?

By Bill Berkowitz

…onservative leaders with close ties to the Republican Party that he, along with Paul Weyrich—widely considered the “Godfather” of the New Right—founded in 2002. The Arlington Group is “encourag[ing] US pastors to set aside one Sunday in September to focus on the battle over marriage taking place in California,” OneNewsNow, a news service sponsored by Wildmon’s AFA, recently reported. Wildmon, Perkins and the entire Arlington Group gang definitely…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…e fieldwork she chose, and yet she had to write about it, really resonates with me. How do I as an anthropologist who works with Muslim youth in Pakistan and the US make sense of this election and its implications for my participants, but also for myself, my family, and colleagues. So I’ve been trying to draft a short 800-word article for Religion Dispatches, as my attempt to make sense of this current moment, not because I chose this as an anthro…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…God will blight our finances, strike our families down, and pretty much afflict us with everything evil and unholy. Rather, God will allow Satan to do those things to us because we have stepped out from under His umbrella of protection, by “touching God’s anointed Prophet.” Pope Francis has said, “I would love a church that is poor.” That’s anathema to Copeland, who boasts that his wealth is evidence of God’s blessing on him. His own wealth comes…

Play to Extinction: Religious Groups Unite Against Predatory Gambling

By Frederick Clarkson

…play to extinction.” The other key transformational understanding is a growing recognition that state-sponsored casino gambling is incompatible with constitutional democracy itself. This argument is being championed by eminent historian of the civil rights movement Taylor Branch, who says that raising revenue via state-supported gambling addiction is a betrayal of the citizens and an avoidance of critical questions about our democracy: what do we…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…story brick Victorian home valued at $3.84 million. • Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, head of the bishop’s Committee on Religious Liberty—the epicenter of the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the contraception mandate—and the man supposedly behind the investigation of the LCWR, lives in a 11,5000-square foot historic mansion that dates back to the first Catholic bishop of the United States. • And last but certainly not least, Newark…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…praying for an end to what they dubbed “the disease,” otherwise known as “swine flu” or A(H1N1) virus. The organizer of the “prayer flight,” Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, told journalists that “the purpose of the flight was to stop the epidemic, thus preventing further deaths.” A few days earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Health had announced that over 2,000 Israelis have been diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus, and that eight people have died from the disea…

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

By Sarah Posner

…e Nazis are ignorant when they obsess so much over the Jews. There is no Jewish problem in Western Europe (with the exception 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 multicultu…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ce then a growing acceptance of gays and lesbians has arrived hand-in-hand with a flourishing economy.” But it’s not just him. In what the Polish media are calling “the Biedron effect,” a record number of candidates also came out publicly before the local elections, which took place in two rounds over the last two weeks. None of the others won seats, but gay rights activists are still hugely encouraged by the change. Their poor showing can be attr…