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Why All the Silly Devil Talk Should be Taken Seriously

By Ebony Utley

…mythology, Satanism, and the Illuminati, as if they were all the same. Accusations linking popular culture artists with the occult were raised during the social upheaval of the ’60s and the ’80s. During those times, rock music and heavy metal were the targets, respectively. Those artists were primarily white men. But because white men are represented so positively in other cultural arenas, no one went on to surmise that white men, as a group, wer…

Motivations of “God Hates Fags” Church’s Philosophy

By Lauri Lebo

…t emerge from a vacuum, but rather from within a recognizable Protestant tradition that they use to promote their views as the “truth” delivered by the “elect.”…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…between meetings. Still, you harbor hope and interest. You are being breadcrumbed. Breadcrumbing is what the Vatican does to people whom it marginalizes. For example, at first a single nun, Natalie Becquart, was made a part of the Synod staff with voting privileges. That gave hope to many. Now, once they’re approved by Francis, at least 35 women (non-binary people are far from Vatican radar) will vote along with several hundred bishops. Again, mor…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…f it in class for years to come. [Full disclosure: I was interviewed a few times by the show’s producers—once in person and several times by phone—and gave them some advice on what kinds of material I would like to see included.] But I do want to ask what this series would look like if we also understand American religious history to be about coercion and authority? Most of God in America is about the white Protestant majority in American history….

As Psychedelics Experience a Renaissance, Emory’s New Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality Seeks a Novel Approach

By Hollis Phelps

…rs come into Indigenous lands, pillage their natural resources, and patent new medicinal compounds based on those resources, furthering modern medicine while bringing destruction to Indigenous habitats and ways of life.” Although it remains to be seen how the ECPS addresses the issue, the very fact that it’s mentioned is a step in the right direction, a step that other centers should consider as well. One other feature of the ECPS that sets it apa…

What Does Satanism Have to do With QAnon?

By David Frankfurter

…tarker, more graphic worlds of conspiracy speculation. Indeed, as a recent New York Times op-ed argues, this anxious concern for children’s welfare, has invited the attention of increasing numbers of young women to the social-media culture inspired by QAnon and to the social media sites where QAnon conspiracies proliferate. The QAnon culture claims to reveal not only the Satanic motivations of those who supposedly do the trafficking, but even more…

Idiot Wind: Stephen Strang’s “God and Donald Trump” Aims to Justify Christian Support

By Gordon Haber

…siness “from the bottom up,” surpassing “his father’s accomplishments many times over.” Trump, in other words, earned his own way to the golden toilets of Mar-A-Lago, never mind the $1 million loan, the connections, or the $40 million inheritance that all came from his father. God and Trump is a terrible book, but it is an important book, in its way, for those of us struggling to understand how Christians can support a moral cretin like President…

Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ll business owner—an artist. It’s not. It’s about a Christian nationalist crusade to gut civil rights laws. ADF has an extensive and repugnant anti-LGTBQ history. It’s argued versions of the same case—anti-LGBTQ Christians challenging public accommodation laws—for about a decade. Florists, photography studios, bakeries, and, now finally and successfully, a website company. Why? Because Christian nationalism is inherently unequal. The goal is a leg…

Will ‘Conjuring 3’ Influence Real-Life Events Via the ‘Exorcist Effect’?

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…sm as they did for the Glatzels. The cultural impact of The Exorcist was renewed on February 12, 1980, when it premiered on network television. In fact, the entire Glatzel family had watched the film together before David’s troubles began. Whatever actually happened to David, the family was primed to interpret the situation—and to respond to it—in terms of the film. In 1981, Russell Chandler of the Los Angeles Times noted that the entire affair “s…

Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…the big screen in a packed theater (one of 550 nationwide) presenting the Rushdoony worldview to unsuspecting evangelicals, homeschoolers, and tea partiers. What was not evident from pre-release promotional material was the central influence of co-producer Marshall Foster, a “guest” through much of the film. As president of the Mayflower Institute (now the “World History Institute”), Foster was the “David Barton” of Christian Schooling and homesc…