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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

…when you’re dealing with some of the ultra-Orthodox, and also with the very-non-Orthodox, who might be cool with you because Messianic Jews have convinced them it’s all okay—which at some level might actually be Talmudically accurate… except that it’s apostasy. Got it? Me neither. But that’s exactly the point: identity is a messy game, and inconsistencies abound. Jews have been trying to figure out their relationship to Christianity since at least…

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 the Sovereign Citizens’ movement: Source: https://cemas.io/blog/nuernberg-2-0/ A publication by CeMAS analyzes the connection of “Nuremberg 2.0” to one of the central sovereign citizens’ websites in their report: “Since 2012 the website staatenlos.info mentions ‘Nuremberg 2.0’ as a necessary step ‘in freeing Germany and Europe from fascism and Nazism via the establishment of the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) and SMAD (S…

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

…human being might individually learn from a driving mistake, every new self-driving car will learn from a driving mistake made by a self-driving car. The internet, unlike humans, has the capability for unending improvement; seen this way it’s a benevolent force, empowering people of good will and improving the world. Herzog doesn’t spend much time exploring the everyday experience of the internet—whether social media or the omnipresent smartphone…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…r the rod nor the lash.” Of a meeting with Bauer: “It was like playing Whac-a-Mole at the arcade—whatever issue I addressed, another one surfaced as a ‘problem’ that made my candidacy unacceptable.” The real threat to the GOP, according to Huckabee is “libertarianism masked as conservatism”: “I don’t take issue with what they believe, but the smugness with which they believe it. Faux-Cons aren’t interested in spirited or thoughtful debate, because…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…anctioned Christian churches and rough estimates of those who belong to non-state-sanctioned or “underground” churches. The truth is—and the Pew researchers admit as much—it’s really difficult to accurately estimate what percentage of China’s population is Christian. Because it accounts for such a large portion of the global population, the assumptions researchers make about China hold huge implications for the global numbers. If researchers’ curr…

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

By Michael Schulson

…llion people to eat that much meat—let alone live out a full-on Paleolithic-biosphere-restorationist life—on a planet this crowded and short of resources. Eaton recognizes that conundrum. One possible solution is to reject certain elements of the diet, or to limit it to an elite, high-consuming sliver of the global population. Or, you could cut the world’s population by a factor of 70. That’s Eaton’s preferred solution: gradual population reductio…

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

…bisexual or “unsure” of their sexual orientation. Researchers compared the number of “unhealthy days” reported by residents of each state, using the CDC definition of “the total number of days in the past 30 that people reported that their physical and mental heath were not good,” according to the press release announcing the study’s findings. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System does include a question that allows participants to identi…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ogy. The Washington political class has spent the past week going into made-for-TV hysterics over $165 million in A.I.G. bonuses. We’re in the middle of a multitrillion-dollar crisis, and our political masters—always willing to throw themselves into any issue that is understandable on cable television—have decided to risk destroying the entire bank-rescue plan because of bonuses that account for 0.001 percent of the annual G.D.P. The problem is qu…