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Satanic Harmonies and Zoom Church: Readers Respond

By Daniel Schultz

…olent resistance is morally superior (though I may well believe that personally, along with my church’s teaching). It is rather that habitual reliance on violent military approaches has myriad and documentable unintended negative side effects that are much less likely to occur if we mobilized instead to employ tactics of widespread nonviolent resistance. As I move now into old age, I have to smile at myself when I remember back at how convinced I…

Godless America? Say Hello to the ‘Apatheists’

By Konstantin Petrenko

…d the “nones,” creating a fascinating, albeit potentially explosive, cultural dynamic. In the end, while some Americans will find religion at evangelical megachurches, others will abandon religious faith altogether. What is truly important, however, is that both groups learn to respect each other’s liberty and agree to disagree in a civil manner. America is neither Christian nor godless, but a nation that treasures pluralism and diversity, a natio…

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…he most likely scenario is that Chad and Lori expected to translate the “sealed portion” of the Book of Mormon, a part of this quintessential LDS scripture that’s been held back for the Last Days. In his novel, The Great Gathering, the first installment in his Stand in Holy Places series, Chad wrote about the discovery of these ancient plates in Guatemala. The reference to a book that explains the “translation process,” probably indicates that Cha…

Our Last “Genius” Stephen Hawking is Gone… Cause for Worry Or Inspiration?

By Ed Simon

…nd stereotypes; that the canon of geniuses has historically been white and almost always male isn’t, of course, because there’s a deficit of brilliant men and women of color, but rather because cultural gatekeepers have only expected to find genius among people who conform to a particular model. But that model has a relative history as well, for figures like Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, may have been celebrated as great intellects,…

Newsweek Takes a Bullet On Gay Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…Pacific School of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Alas, such substantive materials—and many more by authors including Irene Monroe, Judith Plaskow and myself—are all out there for the reading. Obviously they are not getting read by more than a small circle of academics. We have work to do to spread the good news of queer scholarship. I doubt that Newsweek regularly sends a correspondent to the American Academy of Religion…

Praying Upon a Star: Michael Jackson Spectacle Highlights Online Rituals

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…ies online via a plethora of Web-based media. YouTube now hosts “The Official Michael Jackson YouTube Channel,” subtitled “His music will live forever.” The site that embeds the “Thriller” music video has seen more than 45 million views, and has more than 200,000 comments, alongside links to hundreds of other official and fan-produced Michael Jackson videos. Rituals, Prayers, and Public Ceremony Online According to Emile Durkheim in The Elementary…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…pture, using every gay talking point out there without any effective rebuttal.” Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary—the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention, has penned a rejoinder titled “Turning the Bible on its Head—Newsweek Goes for Gay Marriage.” A recent Newsweek poll found that: 55% feel that we should have legally sanctioned gay unions and partnerships but by the same percentage think that we…

Goat Head Found in Brooklyn. Who Cares?

By Joseph Laycock

…tled people to express their displeasure. In 1991, while the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hilaleah case was making its way to the Supreme Court, a muzzled goat head was found in the police parking lot. The head was part of a campaign of harassment aimed at mayor Julio Martinez, who was attempting to clean up the city after the previous mayor was suspended for corruption. Martinez’s supporters also received cow tongues and dead fish in th…

Gay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?

By Bill Berkowitz

…on Amendment) has qualified for the November ballot. Sponsored by a group called Florida4Marriage, it would create a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain oppose same-sex marriage. McCain favors the proposed amendment to the California constitution: “I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we did in my home state…

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?

By Sarah Posner

…on Post reported this morning that a Republican congressional candidate in Florida, Allen West, a retired mililtary officer, issued a statement on the massacre headlined “Terrorists Are Infiltrating the Military.” Muslim groups were quick to condemn the shootings — as if they were obligated to much a special effort to do so merely because the alleged shooter was Muslim. The Muslim Public Affairs Council-DC, the Islamic Society of North America Off…