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Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…ffiti. In addition to Skepticon, Pastafarians have also created International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Pastover, and Ramendon. For functionalists, it is irrelevant whether Pastafarians sincerely believe in their noodly deity. This shared body of symbols and practices has spawned an esprit de corps, uniting philosophical atheists and agnostics into a moral community, meaning that Pastafarianism may well be on its way to becoming a religion—in both t…

The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…, right. Or, another post, this time anonymous, reads “Vigil Held For Annihilated Parasites Of Poway Synagogue Shooting.” To be fair, many other posts on chan8/pol/ offered sympathy for Poway victims, made appeals for mutual understanding, and generally denounced hatred. But those quoted stood out for their resemblance to Earnest’s wish to eliminate Jews and other perceived enemies. In particular, the same site hosts numerous posts voicing ideas t…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…hould not categorically reject these advances because many of them do and will alleviate human suffering and misery. However, we should not let scientists alone determine our technological future. Rather, we must involve theologians, philosophers, ethicists, historians, sociologists and political scientists in the conversation about technology and not be afraid of robust debate. The transhumanist project seems to me to be misguided because of its…

Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army

By Peter Montgomery

…re placing huge political and historical importance on a belief in individual salvation, as opposed to the collective salvation envisioned by liberation theology. But when it comes to worshipping God, religious right leaders insist that individual prayer and praise is not enough; Americans have what you might call a collective duty, as a nation, to acknowledge our dependence on God. At one level, you could view Beck and Barton’s attacks on liberat…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…h Africa, where he spent his first twenty-three years, he is the son of Manilal, M.K. Gandhi’s second son. Of the Mahatma’s sons, Manilal had the least troubled relationship with his father and the closest link to his campaigns for social justice. He joined his father’s movement for racial justice in South Africa and spent over a decade in South African prisons. As Arun Gandhi noted in Kasturba: A Life, a biography of his grandmother, “my father w…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…ion is being stripped from the public square, that there is no constitutional wall of separation, that preachers are now forbidden from speaking out on the issues of the day by godless ‘storm troops’ like the ACLU…” In a piece titled “Stephen Mansfield vs. Mikey Weinstein,” published by The Public Record on June 17, Chris Rodda, a Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an expert on historical revisionism and…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

….” The organization will be represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and organizations. In a press release, Bill Saunders, FRC’s Human Rights Counsel and Senior Fellow of the Center for Human Life and Bioethics, said that the FRC was “proud to be working with the … [ADF] in this important battle. Ireland has wisely chosen to protect its most vulnerable citizens and we will work tirelessly to ensure that unb…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…is the case concerning the sanctity of marriage. [Emphasis from the original Alert.] Wildmon said that he is not advocating “tak[ing] to the streets”; rather, that supporters should e-mail “the governor and your two senators, urging them to heed the voice of the people and leave the Prop. 8 language in the constitution.” ++++++++++ Huckabee’s Revenge Has the kinder gentler face of the evangelical movement—the guitar-playing, weight-losing, quip-m…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…e an increasingly valid category of person. One consequence being that we will all become non-vampires, where before we were not. I was recently contacted by MTV about the possibility of hosting a show on modern vampires. They were looking for an expert who was both young and not a vampire. They asked me my age and then asked, “And are you a vampire?” Had I not identified with the category of “non-vampire,” they would have withdrawn their job offe…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…on every ambitious young officer’s lips. Bousquet names this fourth and final paradigm with the neologism “chaoplexic.” He makes it a primary task of his book to show that the US military remains more cybernetic—and less chaoplexic—than it likes to think. The generals haven’t given up their cybernetic right to micromanage. Intoxicated by the prospect of total situation awareness that the latest satellites and computer networks offer, they still in…