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Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

…ular, has weakened, ideological intensity and fragmentation have risen. American faith, it turns out, is as fervent as ever; it’s just that what was once religious belief has now been channeled into political belief. Political debates over what America is supposed to mean have taken on the character of theological disputations. This is what religion without religion looks like. The phrasing here suggests “ideological intensity” is a general proble…

Know-Nothing Christians Irate Over Obama Comments

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s voices raised in protest over President Obama’s speech assume is that America is a Christian nation, not a secular nation at all. And in so saying they adopt the old idea of America as “a city upon a hill”—always exceptional, and made all the more exceptional but its fidelity to biblical ideals. In fact, President Obama is far more comfortable with this rhetoric than many other Christians on the left side of the theological spectrum. The idea he…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…icrobe cells, mutated cells. We are built, too, of our parents, of genetic code and flesh and blood and bones that grow inside of flesh and blood and bones. So we come again to the parents: “There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer,” Hazel tells us. Green, who is now the parent of two children, told The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, that his own…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…ionists’ latest strategy. His is merely relying on what Forrest calls the “code words.” But their long-term goals remain the same: To get God into science class. The full statement in the Texas standards reads: “The student is expected to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their strengths and weaknesses using scientific evidence and information.” (Italics added.) McLeroy considers common…

Op-Ed: The Real Muslims?

By Svend White

…ity” (which basically means Sunni, though sectarians of all stripes treat it as a literal description of their pet approach to Islam; it is surprisingly difficult to find an accessible but nonpartisan explanation of this crucial concept online) were routinely used as code in some Muslim organizations for “Sufis (to say nothing of the hated Shiah) need not apply here.” As with those evangelicals who treat their rather novel dogmas as self-evident,…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…r. Santorum insists that Satan has “his sights on… the United States of America,” that he has been working on America’s downfall by “attacking the great institutions of America,” and that “the place where he was… most successful and first successful was in academia.” Santorum continues: [Satan] understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest. They were in fact smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…he Native American victims of Wounded Knee, and every interned Japanese American, we make America redeemable by the policies we pass between prayers. In remembrance of the dead, we turn our collective power as voters and democratic participants into sacred acts. Through political action, people of faith and conscience ritualize hope and create space for prophetic grief in spite of—in defiance against—the starkly American narrative of hatred and vi…

Religious Right Panic: “Anarchy” will Result if DADT is Repealed

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s of the military, and that is protecting us from our enemies. The Uniform Code of Military Justice also prohibits things like adultery, so as we look at this slippery slope we’re on, what is the next step? Will we see a move to strike down that prohibition as well? Jackson and others speaking at the press conference also repeated the charge that repeal of DADT will cripple chaplains who will be forced to “water down their teachings” or perhaps ev…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…nt, says that pi’s endless stream of numbers must contain all possible numerical representations. If you calculated pi long enough, you’d eventually find the works of Shakespeare coded in 1’s and 0’s. “Somewhere inside the digits of pi is a representation for all of us — the atomic coordinates of all our atoms, our genetic code, a coding of our motions and all our thoughts through time, all our memories…. Given this fact, all of us are alive, and…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February, after American Conservative Union board members rejected his conspiracy theories, including that ACU board members Suhail Khan and Grover Norquist were somehow part of a Muslim Brotherhood effort to take over the U.S. government and the conservative movement. (Khan even called Gaffney a “crazy bigot.”) At that conference, Gaffney’s proxies, including Andrew McCarthy and Cliff May, l…