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Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…people come from?” he queried, ever so rhetorically, about Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. “These people hate Israel. They hate Jewish people.” Trump wants his evangelical base to believe that support for Israel, an evangelical priority, is part and parcel of opposition to Iran—not to mention opposition to progressive Muslims like Tlaib and Omar. Packed with ‘don’t trust a Muslim’ theology Netflix’s Messiah…

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…sees in such prominent figures such as Lady Gaga and junior congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Catholic who isn’t afraid to pull out a few biblical references against the current administration, the future of Christianity in the United States. Hence Graves-Fitzsimmons’s contemporary interpretation of Jesus’ claim of the prophet Isaiah’s mantle in the Gospel of Luke “to bring good news to the poor.” He writes: “Jesus announces h…

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…nity who felt it was an attack against the Coptic Orthodox Church based in Alexandria. But critics have argued that the book is a historical piece that means to deal with religion generally, using Christianity as a base for the narrative. Zeidan himself has said in previous interviews that the text is about how all religions can and have been “manipulated for worldly gains” and how, in the name of religious injustice, hatred, and cruelty have been…

In Time of Crisis Christians Must Reject Charlatans and Magical Thinking

By Brian Rainey

…curse, unleashed because some Egyptologists opened a black sarcophagus in Alexandria two years ago. As the economic and social fallout mounts, expect more of this nonsense. Religious con artists will be working frantically to divert attention from the social and economic implications of the pandemic toward scapegoats and fanciful, otherworldly explanations. Their cults are crude perversions of Christianity in the service of a demonic “free-market…

Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion is Fair Game

By John Stoehr

…ls behave as if politics is somehow taking religion hostage. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday night: “When politicians use faith as an excuse to pass and uphold laws that seize control of people’s bodies but not guarantee them healthcare, feed the poor, shelter the homeless, or welcome the stranger, you have to wonder if it’s really about faith at all.” No, you don’t have to wonder. It’s about their faith, full stop. Millions in…

Egyptian President Al-Sisi is a Dictator, Not a Reformer of Islam

By Mohamad Elmasry

It’s ironic that a number of (mostly right wing) commentators have been invoking the ideals of freedom of speech and expression while praising an authoritarian leader who has cracked down on these freedoms more than any of his nation’s authoritarian predecessors. American and European analysts on the right have called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi an Islamic “reformer” and an ally in the quest to deliver the message of Western freedom t…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…dubbing herself “the Persian Princess of Drag” and tearfully thanking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her advocacy work on behalf of immigrants like Cox’s mother, an American citizen born in Iran. But so far this season—as we literally just said!—Cox has claimed her Iranian-ness solely in racial and cultural terms. Even when commending AOC for “working in Congress in solidarity with Congresswoman Tlaib and Congresswoman Omar,” the first two Musl…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…role as he and his American Episcopalian guides drove East from Denver to Louisiana, up through South Carolina to Washington DC. ______________________ RD: A number of American human rights experts have said that the killing and forced displacement of the Ngok Dinka people from Abyei in May, and their replacement by the Arab, northern-aligned Misseriya, constitutes “ethnic cleansing.” Is ethnic cleansing part of what is happening in Kadugli? Sin…

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…e Common Good, favors making abortion illegal, and only views reducing the number of abortions as an interim step toward that goal. It is hard to take seriously a movement that thinks they can dramatically reduce the number of abortions while largely ignoring or denying the issue of access to contraception—including emergency contraception. One understands that they feel their hands are tied by the official position of the Catholic church against…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

…ughout my formative years, but the boom-chicka-boom of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three. It was natural as a heartbeat. Cash had gone in and he had stayed—and every September 12 since he died, I think of him. Few musicians have been as successful as Johnny Cash. In a career-spanning six decades, he became more than a household name; he became a legend. What was behind this success? It wasn’t his skill as a musician, or his music industry savvy…