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Supernatural Drama ‘Evil’ Provides No Easy Answers to Questions of Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Evil

By Michael F. Pettinger

…vious paranoia. Is the voice coming from that virtual assistant an impersonal algorithm, a malicious hacker, or something worse? The serial killer might not be possessed, but what if the person chatting with him on 4chan is? The line between the human and the demonic is a fuzzy one, particularly in the case of Bouchard’s professional rival, Leland Townsend. His description of the eventual fate of a teenage boy he hopes to have tried and convicted…

Our Last “Genius” Stephen Hawking is Gone… Cause for Worry Or Inspiration?

By Ed Simon

…sed on Albert Einstein’s birthday (as Isaac Newton had been born the year Galileo died). Appropriate because Einstein and Hawking are fused in the popular imagination as twin titans of brilliance, for not dissimilar reasons. They are veritable brands as well as thinkers—Einstein’s mad explosion of hair and his rumpled clothes projecting the demeanor of a mind so consumed with contemplation that he has no time for mere appearance; Hawking even more…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…ver they may have learned in Sunday school. They mostly illustrated the moral values of Judaism, explaining its seemingly arcane practices like dietary laws, and created what Gordan calls “Judaism as an American religion.” From about 1945-1960 over 40 such volumes were published not including cover stories in major national magazines. The basic Judaism genre seems today to be replaced with books like Horn’s People Love Dead Jews. Books about antis…

The Rise of the Catholic Cyber-Bullies

By Patricia Miller

…ocument on remarriage and divorce. The signatories said the letter was a “filial correction” issued to school the pope on where he had gone astray, a measure that hadn’t been employed since the 14th century. The letter was largely dismissed by mainstream Vatican watchers, although it had the far-right Catholic blogosphere in a lather predicting it was “the first piece of the puzzle, with next steps still to come in a long and extended process. … t…

PAC Behind Anti-Park51 Ad Produced “One of the Sleaziest False TV Ads” of ’08 Campaign

By Sarah Posner

…mpaign.” The ad claimed that Obama had a plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants (which was not true), and that would enable terrorists like Atta, an assertion FactCheck called “ridiculous” because Atta entered the country legally and in any event could have boarded the plane he hijacked without a driver’s license. In all, FactCheck concluded, “hardly a word in the ad is true.” The Cato Institute’s Jim Harper called the ad “despicable…

Pathological Optimist Documentary Makes a Medical Martyr of Anti-Vax Crusader

By Gordon Haber

…al, published an article with the deceivingly scientific-sounding title of Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Its authors claimed to have studied 12 children who suffered both from inflammatory bowel disease and a sudden onset of autism. According to its lead author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, eight of the children began to exhibit their behavioral symptoms—a sharp regression in l…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…can Organization for Families; Moira Chimombo of SAFE Africa; Rev. Zacc Kawalala of Word is Alive Ministries. Registration is being handled by the African Organization for Families (also described on its website as the African Organization for the Family), which says it was founded “to defend the natural family from various pressures especially from the Western Countries which were imposing among others same-sex unions, abortion and destructive co…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…x Church, and evangelical churches in Romania, as well as their international allies – including US-based Christian legal charity Liberty Counsel. In July 2016, it sent an amicus briefing to the Romanian government presenting a case for a referendum to change the constitutional definition of marriage and protect ‘traditional’ values. It makes for difficult reading: it suggests that gay parents are more likely to commit child abuse, and makes wild…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…led because it practiced “secular communism,” and that the Plymouth colony also failed because it mistakenly thought that merely “interjecting Christianity into the communist model” would help it avoid Jamestown’s failings. Plymouth only succeeded by “giving each family private property.” One of its exercises is a recreation of a 1746 incident when a French fleet threatened Boston. A teacher playing Thomas Prince leads the students in prayer and “…

Dear Timothy Keller: The “Evangelical” Problem isn’t Pollsters

By Jessica Johnson

…terview about Driscoll during Mars Hill’s decline in the summer of 2014, while allegations of administrative scandals and spiritual abuse made national and international headlines, Keller remarked: He was really important — in the Internet age, Mark Driscoll definitely built up the evangelical movement enormously…But the brashness and the arrogance and the rudeness in personal relationships — which he himself has confessed repeatedly — was obvious…