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Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End

By Anthea Butler

…pimp game in his own backyard. The recent reporting on scandals throughout Europe could (I hope) prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks a very feeble Vatican back. The Pope’s involvement in the “hot potato” philosophy of moving bishops and facilitating sexual abusers has come back to haunt him in a very real and dangerous way. It is not simply a smear campaign, as Vatican insiders protest. Will the avalanche of revelations and investigations…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…tes are. This is in many respects a dying continent from the standpoint of European-Europeans. And if we lose faith, and we lose the culture war and become a completely secular, materialistic society, then we will go the way of the Europeans and we will have no heart to face these people. The problem with the Europeans is that they are completely secular folks, by and large, who see the world through the eyes of reason. Well, these people don’t –…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lticulturalists and the righteous few, a series of coup d’etats throughout Europe will overthrow the liberal forces. Then, finally “the deportation of Muslims” will begin, and European Christendom will be restored. Is this a religious vision, and am I right in calling Breivik a Christian terrorist? It is true that Breivik—and McVeigh, for that matter—were much more concerned about politics, race, and history than about scripture and religious beli…

Killing For Religion, Not God

By Haroon Moghul

…slim, sexually energetic and irrational, as against the languid and supine European. It might be noted that the wealthiest nations of the world are not the most populous. Rarely, if ever, do mere numbers translate into power absent other factors. Otherwise, Luxembourg would not be Luxembourg, and Nigeria would not be Nigeria. But forget the more abstract arguments. Why didn’t Breivik just marry a (presumably Norwegian) woman and have a big family?…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…largely Christian anti-Semitism, pogroms, and the Holocaust that decimated Europe’s Jewish population, not Muslims. Federer pivots from this ahistoricism to blame contemporary tensions in Europe entirely on Muslim immigrants who are trying to eliminate everyone else, arguing that we have, “1400 years of history and countries all over the world as examples.” Even prosecuting Muslims for crimes is impossible to Federer because, “when there’s violenc…

Pat Buchanan Praises Breivik’s Cultural Analysis

By Sarah Posner

…lict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right. Buchanan harkens to a Thomas Jefferson quote, “Like a fire bell in the night,” as he awakened to the possibility of the slavery issue provoking a civil war. Buchanan joins the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer in proclaiming Breivik’s manifesto an “a…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…n properly be called ‘radical’. We hear a lot about Islam, identity, and Europe, but rarely is much of it particularly helpful. Though your book talks about the Muslim majority world frequently, what challenges and opportunities do see for Muslim (minority) communities in the West? (You can take that to mean the United Kingdom, Europe, or the West more generally.) This question is an important one. Classical interpretations of the shari’ah and I…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…at depression will sink over the continent as it undergoes “a decline that Europe hasn’t experienced since the Black Death.” The comeuppance has a name, one being fervently hawked among a group of Christian Right “pro-family” activists hoping to spark a movement in secular Europe. It’s called the “demographic winter,” a more austere brand of apocalypse than doomsayers normally trade in, evoking not a nuclear inferno but a quiet and cold blanket of…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…s Australia and New Zealand. “They are coming into America and Canada, and Europe as well,” he says. Pentecostal migrants to Europe come mostly from Africa, he says, noting that some of the largest churches in Europe have “apostolic leaders who refer to themselves as bishops or apostles.” Similarly, he notes that “many” of the “illegal aliens” coming into the U.S. from Central America are Pentecostals and include pastors and adds that “illegal ali…

How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

By Monica Black

…lly led investigations or executions. Witch fears endured in many parts of Europe, as they have in other parts of the world. But what caused a great spike in accusations after Germany’s defeat in WWII and the destruction of the Third Reich? Unlike earlier European witch scares, postwar West German witchcraft accusations did not involve carnal relations with the Devil, nocturnal flight, or being able to fall down stairs without sustaining injury. T…