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New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…vangelicals, and the United States’ claim to being exceptional in escaping Western Europe’s radical de-Christianization, Gallup reports that fewer than 50% of Americans declare membership in a church, synagogue, or mosque. Yet, despite the decline of organized religion, the latest book from French political scientist Olivier Roy, Is Europe Christian?, argues that until quite recently, it could still be said that Europe and America reflected a cont…

A Short Primer on Married Priests in the Wake of Francis’ Denial of the Amazon Synod

By Katherine Kelaidis

…n Church history with little objection. With the Eastern churches gone and Western opposition silenced, clerical celibacy became the unquestioned practice of the Roman Catholic Church. It was not until the Protestant Reformation, beginning in the 16th century, that the practice would be questioned. The Reformers saw clerical celibacy as unsupported by the New Testament and saw its abolition as one of the key areas in need of reform. In opposition…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…iberately, over several decades, to corrode the traditional foundations of Western civilization by mainstreaming multiculturalism, relativism, feminism, LGBTQ pride, social justice and, worst of all, “political correctness.” The old Bolshevik menace, Lind warned, had not fallen with the Berlin Wall—rather, it metastasized into the more diffuse realm of culture, making it more dangerous and difficult to fight than ever. In the early 2000s, Lind’s c…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r those who engage in homosexuality, those who support it, and media that “promotes” or mentions it. A social media campaign using the hashtag #WeNeedToTalk to promote the World Youth Forum being held in Egypt November 4-10 was hijacked by activists to draw attention to the country’s crackdown on LGBT people and on civil society in general: The conference’s organizers had hoped the hashtag would encourage interaction among the participants ahead o…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…ing? Any of those may be as legitimate as the supposed truths contrived by Western reason and science. The takeaway: Believe whatever you want, because pretty much everything is equally true and false. Foucault, Feyerabend, Baudrillard—these postmodernists infected the academy with traditions of irrationalism that spread to the culture at large. Science, reason, and knowledge were social constructs. Though conservatives decried this academic relat…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…(APC) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, signed agreement with four Western nations to support same sex marriage in Nigeria, if he becomes President. At a media briefing in Abuja, National Coordinator of BVN, Olayemi Success, who described the allegation as “another unguarded vituperation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said there was no relationship between Buhari and any Western nation concerning gay marriage and “such pervasive or…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ritarian rule by creating, and then punishing, the image of a suspicious, “Western” other. It’s also tempting to let Kadyrov’s words shape Western discourse about Chechnya: that it (or Islam) is intrinsically homophobic, that violence, or honor killings, are simply part of Chechen life. But to do so would be to allow ourselves to fall into the trap of taking Kadyrov’s propagandist rhetoric about what is and is not “Chechen” at face value. The LGBT…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…d perhaps help to emancipate us from their grip. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought Chad Alan Goldberg U. of Chicago Press May 2017 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Why study the history of social thought? There are different answers to this question, but for me, it has an emancipatory purpose. By reflecting critically on the categories, concepts, and principles that we have inherited from the past, we become…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…e President is given some introduction and instruction on the holy site by Western Wall rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch and Western Wall Heritage Foundation director Mordechai Eliav. After some urging, he walks slowly—solemnly?—to the wall, where he raises his right hand and presses it against the stone. We, as viewers, hear the staccato buzz of camera shutters as Trump seems to stare ahead, head unbowed, swaying backwards and forward in what looks like…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…sh structures would be less potent here? They’ve been pervasive in so many Western societies. People have often asked me, do I think that there’s something in the Anglo-Saxon political tradition that to some degree…is inoculated against that kind of thing? For example, is there more of a positive attitude towards capitalism and markets that inoculates us against the use of fears of Judaism [when we] talk about economic inequality? I didn’t give mu…