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

By Thomas Lecaque

…of their homes, can achieve their vision of a happy ending. As the Israeli military moves into the Gaza Strip, those calls from the United States get ever more explicit, taking the general calls for Christian-themed violence and making them more specific. The Gospel Coalition’s Peter Leithart, for example, likens Hamas to the biblical Amalekites, and compares the Palestinian people to their hostages. But the bottom half of that tweet, “Yahweh vows…

New Scoop: “Total War” Against Islam

By Sarah Posner

…ter week, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout the U.S. military. For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that America’s real terrorist enemy wasn’t al-Qaida — but the Islamic faith itself. In his course, Dooley brought in these anti-Muslim d…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…and imprisoned. During my fifth year I was among the many arrested by the military and I was forced to leave the country. I then turned my attention to El Salvador where, on March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated because of his defense of the poor. Months later, four U.S. churchwomen working with the poor were raped and killed by the Salvadoran military. Two of the women, Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, were friends…

In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

…the message, one that equates a book that contains the story of Jesus with military power, force and violence, is understood. Except, of course, while there’s a great deal of room for interpretation regarding Jesus and his teachings, it’s safe to say that Jesus’s story isn’t the story of a Roman or building an empire. It’s a story of a life lived over and against the Romans and their empire. The Jesus movement wasn’t a movement capable of military…

Gaza Reading [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…2012 More political reading: Matt Duss at The American Prospect on why the military attack on Gaza was a gamble for Israel, and one that won’t solve the problem it purports to address. Daniel Levy at Open Zion with a very detailed look at the role of Israel’s electoral politics and regional geopolitics. He concludes: “every time Israel prioritises military solutions over political solutions, views the Palestinians through the framework of occupati…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…akarta’s Christian governor, imprisoned on blasphemy charges. South Korea: Military sentences against gay captain An Army captain faces dishonorable discharge after a military court sentenced him to a suspended prison term for having sex with a fellow male soldier. From Kim Tong-Hyung’s Associated Press report: In conservative South Korea, gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people are harshly stigmatized and struggle to be politically visibl…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…ary into a responsible process of democratization. Who else can summon the numbers adequate to force the military’s hand? And the Islamists, too, might read these lessons in their own way: They can participate in politics, but not really. Or only under strict limits, which others will decide for them. That didn’t work in Algeria, and tens of thousands died in a war that the deep state exploited for its purposes. It only worked in Turkey until the…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e insurance money and given access to various discounts provided to family members, such as on mobile phone contracts, according to the city. Malaysia: Censorship board reverses itself, allows showing of Beauty and the Beast Disney reported that “Beauty and the Beast” will be shown in Malaysia even though it resisted censors’ initial demand that a scene with a brief “gay moment” be removed. Tourism Minister Seri Nazri Aziz had said it would be rid…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…s Smith’s belief in the importance of the doctrine, as well as the growing number of people initiated into the order. And though the prophet tried to stop the rumors from spreading, an increasing number of prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radical r…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…s over, around twenty-five persons were killed, and hundreds were injured. Military troops finally put an end to rioting but few Protestant Christians spoke out against the nativists as their movement grew. For instance, in the archives of a Protestant church right across the street, there is no mention of the burning of St. Augustine’s Church. How could this be? Perhaps the members of that church were among the Nativist rioters? We can’t know for…