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Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

By Arri Eisen

…souls and saving whales can (and should) happen together: Look at what the Georgia Interfaith Power and Light group is doing: inspecting places of worship for energy-use effectiveness and then awarding grant monies to make improvements; the Evangelical Environmental Network and the evolving concept of creation care; a synagogue in Evanston, Illinois awarded the highest level of certification by the US Green Building Council. Would I still be luggi…

Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

…. As the New York Times reported late last month, the overwhelmingly white Georgia Right to Life has spent more than $20,000 erecting 80 billboards around Atlanta that proclaim, “Black children are an endangered species.” The group has created a Web site, Too Many Aborted, with excellent production values, designed to portray legal abortion as a plot against the black community. Meanwhile, according to the Times, the new documentary Maafa 21: Blac…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ntified video is reminiscent of another video, of a mass infant baptism in Georgia, which also elicited controversy, predominately in Western Europe and North America. The Snopes article concludes, “…it’s clear that the baptismal practice depicted isn’t all that uncommon.” And that’s true. Millions of infants have been baptised this way over centuries (including me, by the way). What’s uncommon is for an infant to die, as was the case last week. S…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…within evangelicalism, like the prominent Texas Republican, David Barton, promote the idea that America is slouching toward Gomorrah. America is God’s chosen republic, Barton asserts: the nation has been an explicitly Christian country from its earliest days and needs to reverse its sinful migration away from its biblical roots. Professional historians, by contrast (including leading evangelicals like Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden)…

The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…verred, “is predict which individual upon hearing the rhetoric of clear or coded incitement will turn to violence.” Berlet’s essay was titled “Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence.” Indeed, villain identification has been going on for a long time, and NAR leaders are now featuring ancient scripts for modern violence and religious war. We hear it in the form of imprecatory prayers by religious and politic…

The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

By Jonathan L. Walton

…insurance coverage. Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia where at minimum an excess of 20% of residents are uninsured. So it seems that he parts of the country that are most in need of health care reform are most likely to have citizens who decry “socialism” and believe in government initiated “death panels.” Now it would be easy to dismiss ardent health care reform opponents as politically manipulated cogs at best and ra…

Where in the World is Sarah Palin?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

I have been in the lovely north Georgia mountains for the past two days; it’s the loveliest time of year here. This is where the Appalachian Trail begins, the long cascade of Blue Ridge) Mountains nearby at the peak of their fall color, all the brilliant leaves still on the trees. It is the time for the big fall festivals as well—Apple Festival in Ellijay, Octoberfest in Helen, Sorghum and other festivals scattered about. The people, poorer the f…

Battling The Antichrist By Outlawing Microchips

By Joseph Laycock

…ermal implants. A similar bill has just passed the house in Tennessee. The Georgia State Senate also passed an anti-microchip bill last month, sponsored by two Chips: Republican State Senators Chip Pearson and Chip Rogers, both Baptists and active in their churches. Beast 2.0 The sponsors of these bills, all of them Republicans and outspoken conservative Christians, claim that preventing the forced implantation of microchips is a civil rights issu…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…e first place, advocates for Christian nationalist ideas—meaning that they promote the myth that America is by origin and by right a Christian nation, that it’s lost its way at the hands of a militant secular elite, and that white Christians in particular are now the principal victims of persecution in American society. They’re all committed and partisan Republicans. And finally, they are disposed to believe in—or at least to promote—unsubstantiat…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s familiar territory for Greene, this time she escalated her rhetoric. The Georgia Republican, who refers to those convicted for their role in the insurrection as “political prisoners,” declared: “I’m not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead. And they have already started the killings.” This is a startling escalation—even for Marjorie Taylor Greene. It’s also a bold-faced lie: The example she proceeded to give of a te…