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The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…and editors of scripture, scholars began to demonstrate, sometimes with incompatible stories and contradictory theologies. The New Testament’s gospels, this scholarship showed, were not composed shortly after Jesus’ death by his eyewitness disciples like Matthew and John. Rather, they were written accounts based on oral traditions and other now-lost writings, composed decades after Jesus’s death—with all the attendant problems of memory and recor…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…d by Ronald Reagan. But the man knew what he spoke of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw In sharp contrast to the bleakness of “Mama Tried” stands the deep hope of the greatest Christmas song ever written, “If We Make It Through December,” with its trusting assertion “I plan to be in a warmer town come summertime.” Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to. You couldn’t listen to a line like that without kn…

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…ent in order to achieve power or control. More specifically, terrorism has come to mean perpetuating violence on civilians, making it distinct from other exercises of violence to achieve power—for example, military combat. Assuming this somewhat loose definition (without reference to who the terrorists are and who the civilians might be) leaves open questions of what kind of power is exercised and to what end. These questions lie at the heart of “…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…inor social repercussions in the workplace if they came out as an atheist, compared to only 35 percent of respondents in Canada, 24 percent of Australians, 15 percent of residents of United Kingdom, and 12 percent of Western Europeans. More than two-thirds of Americans said they would suffer stigma in their community and 61 percent said they would suffer stigma from their family. When broken down in by region in the U.S., those who live in Souther…

Lesbian Panic Reaches Apogee With Kagan Rumors

By Susan Henking

…ther uses the question as a headline (in, gasp, the Washington Post). Here come the lesbians! Here come the lesbians! And, of course, where there are lesbians, religion is relevant, right? So, The Huffington Post is asking: “Why is the Christian Right Afraid of a ‘Lesbian, Homosexual Elena Kagan’?” Where there are rumors of lesbians, there are odd responses because, remember, this is all about politics, right? As HuffPo’s Michael Kieschnick puts i…

Parkland Activists Don’t Care What You Think And They’re Not Interested in the Faith Wars

By Daniel Schultz

…ys found corrosive on both sides of the equation. Forced to choose between competing views of a faith, many people will simply walk away instead. (And to be fair, even white evangelicals—among the most conservative demographics in the nation—support stricter gun controls.) And again, the Parkland activists have made it pretty clear that they don’t see themselves as perfect, much less moral paragons, and certainly not exemplars in any religious sen…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…for violence in the same way calling a group the Amalekites is a call for violence in the same way that saying it’s a religious war is a call for violence in the same way that championing the imminent arrival of the Rapture is a cheer of support for that violence. All of this rhetoric comes from the comfort and safety of great distances, across the seas. The violence, the brutality—that’s happening in the real world, to real people. But the forces…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…g Trump’s presidency. And it makes me wonder what we can expect. Will we become numb? Complacent? Kaya Oakes: There are some things the series portrays that aren’t realistic, in my opinion. Atwood herself describes it as speculative fiction, which always operates on the worst case scenario. Maybe this is my California filter, but I don’t see women being rounded up and forced into Puritan-style outfits (maybe ours will be designed by Ivanka?), or L…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…tell the operator it’s the Passover offering, and “prosperity is going to come into your life, . . . and everything that has been stolen from you will be given back.” In TBN’s world, God is not compassionate to the poor, only to the faithful, and their faithfulness is measured by their offering. It doesn’t matter if the audience might need their money for the rent, for medicine, for food. Munsey says—to nods and murmurs of affirmation—that God is…

Bart Stupak’s Demand: What It Would Mean

By Sarah Posner

…ed,” DFL executive director Kristen Day told the conservative site CNSNews.com. Day claimed that Stupak’s language would “apply the Hyde Amendment” to health care [barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortions], though that has already been done through the Capps Amendment, which Stupak has called a “phony compromise.” Lois Capps, a California Democrat and author of the eponymous amendment, has already laid out exactly how her amendment in…