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RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…I like the cover a lot, but it was expensive and authors sometimes have to pay that cost. Anita Dufalla, who works here in Pittsburgh, did a wonderful job conveying the sense of different realms even in a purely natural universe. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? No, there is no other book that says what I am trying to say. But I wish I had the scientific training of Simon Conway Morris in Life’s Solution. He is a…

Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’

By Shaul Magid

…y offense for which Jews can be ‘excommunicated’ in the US today is not to participate in these efforts [to support Israel]. Intermarriage, ignorance of the Jewish heritage, or lack of faith do not keep anyone from leadership in the American Jewish community today. Being against Israel or apathetic in its support does.” Allowing Zionism to define its own terms One hears a variety of arguments about why opposing Zionism is illegitimate by definitio…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…antisemitism of violent white nationalists—and Republicans like Steve King—pales in comparison to the word choice of a freshman hijabi Congresswoman. Democrats don’t seem to know or care what the real threats facing Jews are, nor do they seem to recognize the diversity—ideological, political, and otherwise—of the Jewish community. Furthermore, for certain issues, bipartisanship—held up as a moral ideal—deliberately attempts to obfuscate moral wron…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.” In addition to replacing “men” with “people,” a 21st century paraphrase might say that we’re free to believe and express ourselves as we will and that our religious or irreligious identity neither advantages nor disadvantages us as citizens. In that spirit, a remarkable group of national organizations are promoting a model Religious Freedom Day proclamation or re…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…hes in other evangelical denominations, but also educational institutions, parachurch ministries, parallel information and entertainment industries, and political lobbying organizations. As I have argued at RD and elsewhere, evangelicalism is essentially authoritarian, its defining doctrine of “biblical inerrancy” (or at least “infallibility”) serving to uphold a usually implicitly white supremacist—and usually explicitly patriarchal—theology and…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…ume that he’d cite the Sermon on the Mount, the Two Great Commandments, or passages like “God is love and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him” (1 John 4:16). Tarrant and his ilk would retort by citing Constantine and the Crusades, the Jesus of the Book of Revelation, or biblical passages like Luke 12:51-3, where Jesus shows his teeth, so to speak, and says things like: Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…t Muslims and Christians or studied the artifacts they left behind. His 74-page manifesto, “The Great Replacement,” parrots the deeply flawed historical claims of white nationalist pseudo-intellectuals and their trolling internet henchmen. The manifesto smacks of white fragility. It spews vitriolic rhetoric about the malleable Other who seeks to invade and replace; the non-white bogeyman who threatens white identity. In this case, the Other takes…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s of hatred have given context and support for Tarrant’s act. Far from being a “lone wolf,” the perpetrator of the New Zealand massacre was not isolated. This terrible event was part of a sad, established pattern of xenophobic nationalism and white Christian terrorism that is as global as it is destructive….

How the Religious (and ‘Nones’) Vote May Tip 6 Swing States

By Daniel Schultz

…n. To understand why from a religious perspective, consider three factors: partisanship, race, and region. Republicans, whites, and residents of the South and Midwest are most likely to support Trump. White evangelicals tend to be conservative, giving the president a strong base in the South—this much is not surprising. Less obvious is that after Mormons, white Catholics and white mainline Protestants are Trump’s strongest supporters in the religi…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…ance has posed difficulties. Margaret Hogan, who attends All Saints (Episcopal) Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, typically assists with Sunday services but now participates from home. She reports a shared sense of loss among her co-parishioners. “I miss being a part of it,” she admits. For Hogan, church ranks high among “the things you could count on that have been deeply disrupted.” *** Despite the disruptions it appears that some worshipers a…