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Josh Duggar Arrest For Child Sexual Abuse Material is Part of a Systemic Problem in Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

…uivalently heinous in God’s eyes, which opens the door for evangelicals to compare consensual same-sex relationships to alcohol addiction or murder—makes for a toxic brew in which the abuse and silencing of women and children is simply inevitable. The evidence of that is all around us. “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,” Jesus is quoted as saying in the Gospel of Matthew. “By their fruits you will know them.” *CORRECTION: The original version of…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…freedom-loving urban constituency. Throughout Afghanistan people have cell phones and access to the internet. It’ll be difficult to have the same kind of social control two decades later. Another factor is the way the Taliban came to power in recent months. In February 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo represented President Donald Trump in meetings with Taliban representatives in Qatar. Trump essentially surrendered to the Taliban in excha…

Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…-themed remarks. And while Arizona Republican Andy Biggs and the Texas GOP compare the FBI raid to the crossing of “the Rubicon”—thereby painting Garland and the FBI as wannabe-dictators marching to Rome—they would only be too happy to welcome a Caesar, so long as he was their own. As with “law and order” rhetoric, it becomes clear: consequences and laws are not for their own, not for conservatives. As Thomas Zimmer astutely points out: Calling fo…

A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

By Annika Brockschmidt

…bsessed with “strategy”.” This makes a lot of sense when one applies it to compare Vance and Masters. Ganz writes: “Applying my theory of jocks-nerds fascism to blake masters: Americans seems to like Italian-style jocky-douchey fascism a la Trump way more than than German creepy-nerdy Nazism.” While the historic versions of Italian fascism and Nazism differed quite a bit in policy and structure, the echoes of their aesthetics are distinct in Vance…

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

…s been edited for length and clarity. How do the discussions in the Talmud compare to the anti-trans legal attacks and debates taking place right now? For one thing, I don’t think androgynes or eunuchs in rabbinic literature are literally trans or intersex. That’s one of the powerful things about doing this kind of history: it allows us to look at how the rabbis are organizing sex and gender quite differently than we do. For example, I don’t think…

Blaming Young People For the Fall of Roe is Like Holding Firefighters Accountable for Arson

By Gillian Frank

…ns to be bombarded day in and day out by graphic signs and aggressive, megaphone-amplified shouts from those who compare abortion to the Holocaust. It bears remembering that Catholic and evangelical churches and organizations haven’t merely condoned but often coordinated these activities for decades. These demonstrations—which are their own kind of violence—have been ongoing. And they’ve coincided with clinic invasions, arsons and bombings, and th…

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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…e he couldn’t stay silent, even as he advocated silence. I say this not to compare the Holocaust in any way to the atrocity of October 7th, for which there is no comparison, but only to express the anguish and pain of what one cannot do, and at the same time, in that same moment, what one cannot not do. I now understand Yitz’s choice. Words of comfort (nechama) are permitted, even welcomed. But any attempt at reflection or analysis; any attempt to…

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

By Thomas Lecaque

…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 to fight until the memory of Amalek is blotted out from under heaven,” is not a subtle message. https://twitter.com/TGC/status/1712838183916900865 The article itself makes for complicated reading. In one section, it reads: Amalekites don’t just happen to harm women and child…

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…dog still strapped to the roof of the car. Incidentally, Romney refused to compare his scandal to Noem’s, declaring: “I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.” While other former presidential candidates like John Kerry and Barack Obama have tried to keep the Veep-tryouts as secret as possible to avoid the people involved who don’t get chosen the humiliation Kerry suffered when Joe Lieberman got the job, Trump of course delights…

Trump’s Bibles and Sneakers Campaigns Tell an Old Story About the Role of Race in Christian Nationalism

By Dara Delgado

…and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. To be clear: this is not an attempt to compare Trump’s campaign strategies to the transatlantic slave trade, but rather to acknowledge that there’s a shared cultural heritage or DNA. Or, as womanist theologian Katie Cannon showed, it is part of a “theologic of racialized normativity,” first implemented by the earliest European colonizer. Within this framework, the earliest European colonizers justified monetizin…