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A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…issue, few American Jews would say that the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim were anything other than Jewish, even though many believe that the messiah has already arrived in the form of their late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Obviously, Christianity comes with its own special set of connotations for Jews. But it’s important to recognize that, when it comes to messiahs and syncretism, doctrinal purity may not be American Judaism’s strong suit. Plus,…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…o is referring to the Federal Republic of Germany. According to them, Germany is a ‘fascist colony,’ that needs to be de-nazified by Russia on the basis of national socialist laws, in order to answer the ‘German question’ and to re-establish a ‘German homeland.’ The ‘German question’ means the territorial unity of Germans in the form of a state and is a central topic in the sovereign citizens’ milieu, especially amongst ‘Reichsbürgern’.” Because t…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…internet as a result of the inexorable working out of Moore’s Law. As the number of transistors on a chip grew exponentially, computers became smaller, and then they became “personal,” and then they fit in our pockets as a phone. “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” at the Computer History Museum In this telling, the internet was not a unique “Columbus” event, but an evolution dependent on the shrinking size and growing capacity of co…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…y spirited debate watch this clip of columnist and author Dan Savage and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council), and with Religious Right groups see in their victory an opportunity to push for more anti-gay Constitutional amendments in a number of states, it may be surprising to learn that there are still some Prop. 8 stories out there that haven’t garnered much media attention. Most people who followed the ultra-costly battle ove…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…liated” now is that people who used to skip church and not really believe anything in particular simply felt a social pressure to identify with a religion anyway. Now, more people feel comfortable simply naming what they were already doing before. 5. Eve May Have Stolen the Apple, but Adam is Leading the Exodus from Eden Of the 66 million people globally who are projected to switch their religious affiliation away from Christianity over the next 4…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…possessions. And the hunters and gatherers worked very hard to keep down any sense of one person being able to boss anyone else. There were no dominance hierarchies? Well, they were much more subtle than what we have now. There were not the unforgivable discrepancies that we have now. Do you know what the Gini coefficient is? No. It’s a scale from 0 to 1. At 1, one single person in the society owns everything. At zero, everybody is absolutely equ…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

The National Center for Science Education has tracked a record-setting number of nine anti-evolution bills introduced in state legislatures since Jan. 1. The latest is Texas’ HB 2454, which would prohibit an institution of higher learning from “discrimination related to research related into intelligent design.” “PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher education may not discriminate…

Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

…r had jumped to nearly 60%. Heterosexual people in Indiana did not report any significant increase in the number of unhealthy days, and surrounding regions experienced no similar spikes among LGBQ or straight populations. That suggests that something insidious in Indiana was impacting LGBQ people. Of course, anyone who followed the RFRA debacle in Indiana won’t be surprised by these results. The national outcry in the wake of the law’s passage mad…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ist facing the bewildering array of current economic problems stick to the numbers or engage in psychological analysis? We could do worse than break down the current cast of characters based on that question and that approach. Greenspan was a number cruncher, Brooks observed, and unfortunately for him, human psychology caught up with him in the “housing bubble.” The current debate over Timothy Geithner is being conducted in similar terms. No one d…