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Katie Britt Wants You to Be Afraid — It’s the Fuel That Feeds Conservative Power

By Daniel Schultz

…and other representatives of social conservatism are often doing a literal sales job. Like any influencer, they hawk books and videos and podcasts and other products. Britt does have her own book to sell (God Calls Us to Do Hard Things sells for $22 on Amazon), but in her SOTU response she was flacking the Republican party line. Most likely, she was also selling herself as a possible running mate for Donald Trump (and she’s still selling, attempti…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…y are a’changin’. The synagogue where Bob Dylan had his bar mitzvah is for sale. While the Vatican may say Homer and Bart Simpson are Catholics, The Simpsons’ producer disagrees. The cartoon family regularly attends Rev. Lovejoy’s First Church of Springfield “which is decidedly Presbylutheran.” Meanwhile, apparently it is impossible to officially leave the Catholic Church. And the Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis says he doesn’t want any “lukewa…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…ws. He decried Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down laws banning the sale of birth control, because the justices “made it up, “referring to privacy rights. (Ditto Roe v. Wade, of course.) The Supreme Court, he concluded, “does everything to undermine” the Constitution. Moore was particularly disgusted with President Obama’s declaration of June as LGBT Pride month. “If you really want to get sick, go to the White House website and look up the…

Prop 8 Closing Arguments Turn on Tradition

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…yard because his religious teachings told him that God would not allow the sale of his ancestral home. Tradition dictated that he must never relinquish the land that God had given him. Ahab’s wife—the dreaded Jezebel—concocted a plan that got Naboth killed, so Ahab could quit sulking and go get Naboth’s land. In the traditional reading of this story, Naboth is the hero and Ahab and Jezebel the obvious villains. Naboth cleaves to God’s word and wil…

Secret Sequel: New Age “Mind Cure” Misses the Point

By Mark Vernon

…she cites in a brief case study. “Within ten hours he’d closed his biggest sale.” Alongside such ‘evidence,’ pseudo-science is rallied to the cause too. For example, Byrne latches onto the ‘tipping point’ phenomenon, interpreting it to mean that if 51% of your thoughts are positive, you’ll attract more and more in an exponential curve—what people colloquially refer to as a lucky streak. There are nods to quantum physics and Werner Heisenberg’s des…

Faith in the Market Is Our National Religion, Says Theologian Harvey Cox

By Alan Levinovitz

…persons.” No longer, apparently—though Cox never discusses that the actual sale of people was widespread back then, and somehow ended during the age of The Market. “There was a time when stately hymns, chorales, and ‘Sunday-go-to-meeting’ neckties and dresses all bespoke restraint and self-control.” No longer—nowadays “the modern turn to guitars, trap drums, jeans, and sweatshirts sends, if not always consciously, a very different message.” Once u…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…bnormal” person? If Rorty had not been paid the royalties generated by the sale of his books, would he have failed to take his publishers to court had his editor argued that in the “invented moral vocabulary” of publishing, they’d just changed the rules of accounting? For that matter, when Singer gets his feelings hurt by outraged disabled people who compare him to the Nazis, isn’t that a tacit admission that there is a right way and a wrong way t…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…nen.” (For more, see this article.) Christians Zionists Parade Through Jerusalem: While it wasn’t as colorful as a Gay Pride parade and not nearly as rhythmic as Carnival, several thousand Christian evangelicals from all over the world marched through the streets of Jerusalem honoring the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, or Feast of the Tabernacles, which began Monday and ends Oct. 21. The parade, which the Associated Press called “the latest display of…

Who’s Afraid of Sacred Soccer?

By Gary Laderman

…, is that God really is irrelevant in the religious equation for a growing number of people. An atheist soccer fan can be religious, just as an evangelical Protestant soccer fan can be religious in more ways than one. Religion is damn elusive, it isn’t for the faint of heart, and it is definitely not all it’s cracked up to be. All the yammering about “spiritual not religious” begs the question of whether the sacred is really real (as one of my tea…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

Bill Gothard is intent on defending himself. He’s speaking with me by telephone from the Northwoods Conference Center in Watersmeet, Michigan, where he spends every January “for study and writing and reflecting and fasting.” The controversial 76-year-old evangelist wants to explain away the “distortions” of his critics, and why, he insists, that widely-discussed “Taliban Dan” ad had it all wrong. In the ad (run last fall by congressional candidat…