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Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…iverse governed by impersonal processes. Its model of the world does not encode the kinds of hierarchies between and among species that are central to the creationist narrative. Each narrative offers a divergent conception of time and human history and the forces that shape them. And each privileges a different method for obtaining knowledge about the world: either revelation or empiricism, and, by implication, a different set of specialists who c…

The Return of Government as “Idolatry” and the “Second Amendment Remedies”

By Julie Ingersoll

…, New Hampshire, and Iowa) promoting a creationist film called The Genesis Code, and holding fundraising receptions. The moralistic film follows an unbelieving hockey player and a Christian journalism student who struggle with “reconciling their scientific studies and what’s taught in the Bible” as he falls for her and she uses their relationship to “guide” him “toward God.” You can read a “pro-family” review here that warns of sex (kissing) and n…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…der they’re riled up about—are downright dangerous. Take, for example, the Ugandan Catholic bishops. As Peter Montgomery reported in RD this week, they joined recently with Anglican and Orthodox bishops “to speed-up the process of enacting the Anti-Homosexuality Law.” This is the bill which, when it was introduced in 2009, called for capital punishment for homosexual acts. Some will point out that when this “kill the gays” bill” was introduced, th…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…Lemon test,” said Steve Newton. The hot-button issues of human cloning (a code word for abortion, Newton says) and global warming are linked to increase the appearance of evolution’s controversy. Fostering Fear of Science The science blog Denialism has a list of themes used in the global warming debate that have been similarly deployed in intelligent design battles: Well-funded think tanks are capable of derailing a scientific consensus, in this…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…ure poses, and, in some extreme cases, distinguishing features is only the latest stop on the elevator ride up from the basement of the religious unconscious—the postmodern return of one of the most primitive manifestations of the fan mind, namely, ritual cannibalism, in which participants absorb an enemy’s magical powers by eating his flesh. Following Freud’s analysis, in Totem and Taboo, of the Christian Eucharist as a revival of that ancient to…

Trump as GOP’s New Televangelist

By Sarah Posner

…who wants a Christian president, particularly one who would revise the tax code “so we can rejoice together because it would stimulate economic growth.” (Huckabee’s hosted debate, though, this past weekend, was more of a snooze than a circus.) In 2008 Huckabee got a fundraising boost from Kenneth Copeland, Word of Faith megastar. Copeland, at the time under investigation by the Senate Finance Committee for misuse of tax-deductible donor funds, cla…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

…, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.” As always, since intelligent design was ruled unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the introduced bills rely on such creationist code words as “teaching the controversy,” “academic freedom,” or “critical analysis.” However, in the case of Florida, the bill’s sponsoring lawmaker Rep…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…that boom and bust cycles are inevitable—all circle. In fact, however, the latest bust was made far, far worse by the unreasonable amounts of risk which banks and other financial institutions were allowed to take on, because of deregulation. That deregulation was the result of concerted effort—line. Wall Street says it’s just the way things are, but actually “the way things are” is a construct for which Wall Street itself is largely responsible. I…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…ce) requiring synagogues to pay their employees living wages. Finally, the latest rabbinical seminary on the block, the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCC) has a social justice track which culminates in doing a social project. (Canfei Nesharim was started by students at YCC.) This is truly a revolutionary change. What does it look like? What does it mean? Social Activist Jews Studying Talmud? On a Sunday morning in the Los Angeles Jewish…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

As the Holy See continues to respond to the latest uproar over pedophilic priests (specifically the accusation that the Pope himself, when still Cardinal Ratzinger, was intimately involved in covering up the actions of serial molesters) the matter has become strangely entwined with another of the Church’s persistent headaches: the Jewish question. First, on Good Friday, the Pope’s personal preacher offered a homily in which sustained criticism o…