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Nobel Laureates Tell Gov. Jindal to Repeal Anti-Evolution Law

…untry’s economic future is dependent upon the United States’ retaining its competitiveness in science, it is vital that students have a sound education about major scientific concepts and their applications. We strongly urge that the Louisiana Legislature repeal this misguided law. Louisiana students deserve an education that will allow them to compete with their peers across the country and the globe. The law is based on intelligent design-promot…

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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

…nd staying out of politics, which contrast with TST’s humanistic values of compassion and engaging in socio-political activism. My book goes into greater detail about the two organizations’ central convictions, development, and leading roles in modern Satanism. Your past projects have included a cookbook and a book on Tokyo theme restaurants. How did you first become interested in Satanism? I was an early adopter of blogging, having started my La…

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Louis C.K., Paige Patterson, and the White Male Forgiveness Charade

…edy Cellar was met with both support and criticism—with the support mostly coming from fellow white male comedians and the criticism largely coming from women. Patterson’s return has likewise been met with questions about whether or not such a move is appropriate or reasonable—especially for teaching a course allegedly designed to shape the ethical decisions of future pastors. The parallel lines here are of two men trying to return to the only thi…

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Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

…torm as hip-hop music. Later, during an era of music videos and mainstream commercial rap, less and less that Scott-Heron produced made the transition to a mainstream lingua franca or commercial success. For a long stretch between the mid 1980s and 2010 he released only one record, and he battled drug problems. In 2005, on the record Beautiful Struggle, Talib Kweli commented on “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” in this way: I’ve heard it said…

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Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…BTI people had “often not been treated with respect” and the church should commit to treating the gay community with respect, whatever the outcome of the survey. Frances Abbott, daughter of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, one of the leading opponents of marriage equality, has publicly declared her support for marriage equality, saying, “I don’t really care much for politics. But I do really care a lot for love. All love is good. Let’s celebrate…

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Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

…minate your life, and find what it is you’re missing.” It’s not a terribly complex or comprehensive answer, but offers a distinct alternative to the God-haunted, belief-oriented versions of religion offered by my C-grade student named Bill. Bill gets this low grade because his definition of religion appears to have been culled solely from Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary in which religion is essentially defined, in solid US-Protestant style…

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Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book

…n to civil rights and related issues. Offered a chance to grapple with the complexities of systemic racism, Mohler’s forebearers said no. Pressed to examine and understand the evidence linking natural complexity to Darwinian evolution, they stuck with seven days. Pressed to think seriously about imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, and war, the white evangelical Christians of the late twentieth century simply doubled down on God-and-country. Th…

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Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

…ccept into the Church those gay Christian couples who have made a lifetime commitment to one another? While I have always tried to communicate grace and understanding to people on both sides of the issue, my answer to that question has always been somewhat ambiguous. One reason for that ambiguity was that I felt I could do more good for my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters by serving as a bridge person, encouraging the rest of the Church to rea…

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Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

…raise taxes for more than half of Americans including pensioners and low-income people—harking back to Mitt Romney’s ’47-percent’ comment in 2012. After criticism from Jen Psaki and Chuck Schumer, Scott sat with Sean Hannity for a softball-interview during which he denied that his plan included any tax hikes—a lie that Hannity happily let slide. The tax hike, Scott claims in the document, would be necessary to “grow America’s economy, starve Washi…

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