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Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…iscussion the Secular Survey is intended to spark: https://twitter.com/Artists_Ali/status/1258130531298037764?s=20 https://twitter.com/sooofanxy/status/1258138150033149956?s=20 https://twitter.com/jillianonthehud/status/1258119974264147968?s=2 https://twitter.com/jamiblakeley108/status/1258173442899099648?s=20 While some respondents insisted that being nonreligious is a choice in a way that one’s experience of one’s gender and sexuality is not—and…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…y with you, but I don’t deny your humanity. The art of listening is the first step of every ethics. That’s been misunderstood: as if to become good is to become ethical. But it’s not a question of acting and doing the right thing—that’s hard. But we can listen to the other, give our attention, which is our precious human substance, to the other person. When I give my attention to you it’s a little bit of love, whatever you might call it: and that’…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…simplistic: the West—what used to be known as Christendom—is now in the last stages of a centuries-old struggle for dominance and prestige with Islamic civilization. Since the end of World War II, but even more since the end of the Cold War (1989), the defeated Islamic forces seek revenge from the margins, whether through terrorist activities or public demonstrations. While the Arab Spring may seem to have boded change, it was just a temporary bl…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…, and they are certainly not synonymous with history. This was Miller’s first mistake, turning condescendingly pedantic (not a much-loved trait in America) and lecturing Acosta on what Acosta—and, according to Acosta, a great many Americans—believe. History was rallied to counter faith. “I don’t want to get off unto a whole thing about history here,” Miller said, followed by an originalist theory that separated the statue and its meaning from the…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…anyone else who might have taken offense to his posting. Reddit in search of mindless memes beware: between the cat videos and bizarre news stories you might just find some religious tolerance….

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…specially. There is almost one LDS gay suicide a week in Utah. It’s got to stop. If just one young man who is gritting his teeth and going to church with his family sees us, perhaps he will know that there is someone in his ward, someone in his family he can talk to. Tell me more about “looking like Mormons” when you walk in Salt Lake City on June 3. I want everyone to wear what they wear to Church. I want us to look like the people streaming in a…

Education, Texas-Style

By Lauri Lebo

…ting-bloc on the Board of Education did last week, and, quite frankly, I’m still astonished. Just when you think they’ve gone as low as they can go in their cynical subversion of truth, they exhibit even more outrageous behavior. In their rewriting of state social studies curriculum in the past year, there have been countless examples of how they have attempted to foster their own abysmal ignorance and extreme religious worldview on Texas’ schoolc…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ltimore. At the first, about a dozen volunteers spent the night making almost 300 phone calls and collecting pledges of volunteer support and contributions from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a…

Will Catholic Voters Support LGBT Rights in Washington State?

By Joanna Brooks

…have people around the state working in their parishes—most of it on the west side of the state, where the decision will be made. We are participating in a Catholic-to-Catholic phone bank that Washington United for Marriage has set up on Wednesday nights and we assist with the larger phone bank at the Jewish synagogue downtown. A great deal of our work is communicating with Catholics on our email list and Facebook. As a Catholic, how does your fai…

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…pirical claims? Seidel stuck to his main point. “At its most basic, you’re still stuck with the problem that the government is funding theological inquiry,” he said. “That just can’t happen.” In some ways, the question here boils down to something like: What the heck is theology? Is it a specifically Christian pursuit? Does it only have applications for religious people? In its narrowest definition, theology is the study of God. Unlike the field o…