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Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…urch leader—a pastor, a teacher, a musician—can no longer keep a false silence in good Christian conscience. These are the speeches that persuade, not the arguments-by-number. So why do we repeat them? One strategic justification is that we progressives are regrettably obliged to answer the barrage of speeches from the other side. If they quote those predictable Bible verses against us, we must reply with counter-interpretations. If they brandish…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…h, site of the deadliest peacetime attack on America by a single gunman. Since an equal number of Virginia Tech students and American-born Muslims have gone on killing sprees, Goldberg should clearly be asking to investigate Virginia Tech’s mental health support structures. Or perhaps, using Goldberg’s logic, we should investigate whether East Asian men have a propensity to mass murder, given the ethnicity both of the Virginia Tech and Binghamton…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…Prizes measure, except an ‘abstracted’ science? And what does abstract science do for us? The number of nuclear bombs used by the West outweighs the number used by the entire planet. Muslims did not invent nuclear weapons, nor have they used them. (Let’s pray that stands.) When Saddam Hussein was our ally, he unleashed chemical weapons on Kurds at Halabja, the only confirmed instance of a Muslim regime using chemical weapons. Even considering the…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…toms for the disease here. To say that homosexuality is the cause of substance abuse, depression, violence and early death in the LGBT community is like saying being a teenager causes gangs. While gang membership may be predominantly composed of teenagers, there are societal and familial forces that bring those teens into the gangs. Gangs, aside from the violence they perpetrate, are often a replacement for the love, opportunity and sense of belon…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…y was precisely the fact that the speech was almost certainly going to be uncontroversial. So uncontroversial, in fact, that Obama would come off as a leader who shares many of the same values as everyone else, and who genuinely cares about the success of the next generation. The speech would be, in effect, an opportunity for Obama to stake out common ground across political divides, and affirm in front of the whole nation that no matter how serio…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…n” to “thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us.” Beck’s words have consequences. They advance a world view that ultimately places Jews like Soros in the crosshairs, not unlike what we saw with Father Coughlin in the 1930s or the John Birch Society in the 1950s. Byron Williams, a Beck acolyte who recently engaged in a shoot-out with police on his way to kill “people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU,” shares his hero’s hatred of So…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e in the world looked dim ahead…. even [among my friends] I had felt irreconcilable differences under that compliance and desire to please, a point where two opposite kinds of thinking meet only to engage in combat. Hadrian is reflecting here on the horribly destructive Second Jewish Revolt against Rome (in 132-135 CE). And the pagan emperor is mystified by the way religion serves as fuel for such conflict rather than as a mediator. And that is pa…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ing mate may want to pick up some better internet-search skills using the incognito option). Since I’m probably not mature enough to vote in any election, I’m off the hook. But whether or not we agree or disagree with Harris’ candidacy or record we can agree that the misogynoir she experiences is inexcusable. Personally, I think people should vote for someone based on their policies—or, if all else fails, I guess one could overthrow the two-party…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…produced monarchism and fascism in the 19th and 20th centuries: most succinctly, an alliance of clerical, rural, military, aristocratic, and ethnic elements challenging urban, cosmopolitan, educated, secular, and bourgeois “elites.” Ultimately, power and control are the predicates of morality and virtue. The language of Catholic natural law makes this clear. The telos, or goal, of natural law in politics is power, not freedom; the control of bodi…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…at the mere mention of the ordination of women. But, think of the consequences if the Church did restore its ancient traditional practice of ordaining women. Then the Church would be giving the greatest support possible to what it says all the time: all people are made in the image and likeness of God; all people are destined to image Christ. What alternative title would you give the book? How about: Women Deacons are a Thing of the Past? How do…