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Godless Liberals: The Myth of the Secular Enlightenment

By David Sorkin

…ch of proto-Marxist rebels who longed to sit at cafes and discuss Dawkins’ latest book.” There is also a strong sense that there was something conspiratorial about the Enlightenment and that its contemporary adherents continue to be conspiratorial—that they aim to impose their radical secular views on everyone else by whatever means. There are, of course, good reasons that so many people hold this view of the Enlightenment as the source of secular…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…name. They read aloud the names of Palestinians and Israelis killed in the latest military escalation between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and they recited the Mourner’s Kaddish. A few days later, the group delivered a letter to the Conference’s CEO, Malcolm Hoenlein, demanding “that the Conference of Presidents join our call to stop the war on Gaza, end the occupation, and forge a path forward for freedom and dignity for all people in Isra…

My Voters are Smarter Than Your Voters

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hink about it. To enjoy “The Daily Show,” you have to be up-to-date on the latest political and world news that they parody – otherwise you’ll miss the jokes. To be that informed you have to get your news from a variety of sources – the newspaper, the Internet, blogs, cable news – and you have to be able to evaluate the “truthiness” of anything that you read or hear. Only then, will Jon Stewart be able to make you laugh. But, let’s not be so hard…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t after James Holmes wounded 58 and killed 12 people at the opening of the latest Batman film at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, The Telegraph published a “history of mass shootings in the U.S. since Columbine”—a list of nearly 30 shooting sprees with lethal results. Ne’er-do-wells who merely wounded didn’t make the cut. Thus, not included on the list was a shooting spree in an Alabama bar with a multiple arson warm-up just two days earlier. Th…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…poignant portrayal of torture in a latter-day Next Generation episode. The latest offering aspires to none of these things, at least none that I can tell. Admittedly, I have learned that these films tend to get deeper with age. Politics has always been an inseparable part of the Star Trek universe (the introductory international relations class at my college, in fact, was full of Star Trek references.) There were multitudes of races and cultures a…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…, and that God has been left out of the discussion for too long. By openly promoting sex—among married heterosexual couples—they are trying to distance themselves from the prudish attitudes commonly associated with conservative Christians and working to reach a generation of hip, culturally savvy, young evangelicals. (Although as a recent Religion News Service report indicates, more direct sex talk is a growing trend even among traditional evangel…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…twork executed a French aid worker taken hostage in April. Bus ads are the latest arena for debate between Muslim and anti-Islamic groups. One ad from a Muslim group reads, “The way of life of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Islam. Got questions? Get answers.” Meanwhile an ad from Stop Islamization of American responded, “Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? Leaving Islam? Got questions? Get answers!” P…

The Polite Islamophobia of the Intellectual

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…gs followed. In fact, the message in Flight of the Intellectuals, Berman’s latest polemic which hit the bookstores last month, is so insidious, his knowledge of Islam so shallow, that it must be addressed through the one major category of public discourse into which it fits: Islamophobia/Islamophilia. Since 9/11, the American and European publics have been assaulted by Islamophobic writing from those who know little or nothing about their subject…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ok of everyday life than those who continue to focus on broadcasting their latest deep thought or (oh, sweet mother of mercy, please make it stop!) their latest sermon. 5. A Few New Commandments In 2009, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut was among the first to offer social media guidelines. Like the few that were beginning to become available at the time, they blend what amount to public relations rules (e.g., when and how to use church logos)…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…nsforms. Though this particular conversation is not over, it is merely the latest in a series of such debates across the American Buddhist landscape about the Dharma, pacifism, and militarism. At this point, some readers might be asking exactly the same thing that Foreign Policy did not long ago: “Isn’t Buddhism a religion that places respect for life and the embrace of peace at the very center of its worldview?” While you would be hard-pressed to…