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The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…t behind Romney, setting aside longstanding antipathy towards Mormons. Never mind the random anti-Mormon postcard mailings from roadside ministries in Florida. The big names in evangelical Christianity pretty much agreed as of September 2012 to support Mitt Romney. Even Billy Graham scrubbed an anti-Mormon “cult” reference from his website. And the rank-and-file pretty much followed, turning out in greater proportions for Romney than they did for…

C’mon Muslim Myth Believers! Just Admit It!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ois senator as a Protestant. The Obama-is-a-Muslim confusion is caused by fallacious Internet rumors and radio talk-show gossip. McCain went so far at one of his town hall meetings to grab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab. The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim—less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theo…

Ask the Dust: Tolerant Heathens

By The Editors

…our parents were hardly strict religious folks; long story short, we have all been allowed to pursue our own spiritual paths. My own has led to a life of being relatively agnostic, almost atheist; being an anthropologist, I have studied the religions and spiritual beliefs of people around the world since the beginning of human history for my entire adult life. I am particularly interested in the occult. Here is my problem. One of my sisters, who…

WikiLeaks’ October Surprise: With “Spirit Dinners,” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream

By Carmen Celestini

…ebsites and sites such as everipedia have linked Spirit Cooking with a ritual called “Cakes of Light,” from the religion of Thelema, founded by Alistair Crowley, in which honey, oil, menstrual blood and sperm are used. Wikileaks tweeted: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/794450623404113920 Linking the occult, Satan worship, and New World Order to the American Presidency and political realm, have been simmering below the mainstream within the ma…

‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…in the U.S., identifying it only with a few outlier individuals and groups minimizes both the quality and the quantity of white supremacist ferment. Explicit white supremacy gained a noticeable following beginning with the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the years following the Civil War. By the 1920s, as many as six million people across the U.S. were estimated to be members of the Klan and subscribers to its agenda of resisting black social pro…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…. These observers of right-wing countermovements were ahead of their time. Alas, their time was 50 years ago. These men made many pioneering observations and some of their insights stand the test of time. Most scholars, however, now see their analytical views as based too much on psychological explanations, and their theories about why people join right-wing social movements have been displaced by more recent social movement theories in sociology…

Don’t Believe the Hype (About Believing): You Don’t Need Religion to be Happy

By Chrissy Stroop

…consensus is wrong. New scholarship is exposing the biases and methodological flaws that led to the current conventional wisdom, as well as correcting the record and complicating the picture. To be clear, it is certainly not the case that religion is always harmful, a fact that must be disappointing for the ardent antitheists among us. It is true, however, that “religious people do not generally have better life satisfaction than atheist and non-r…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…” argues Staley, drawing a direct contrast between this view of technological salvation and his own evangelical faith. “If you eradicate God from the picture, you have no other means to achieve that end. There’s no other way to achieve victory over death other than by some hope that you have the technological means to make it possible. And it’s a huge dream to put on technology.” Plenty of us, of course, aren’t looking for immortality anywhere—not…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…fly, to explain away Neapolitano’s flagrant and not-so-very-defensible verbal missteps. Newt Gingrich proved to possess an interesting voice (and to be an effective counter-puncher) in all of this. He has been attempting to reinvent himself as a bipartisan teller of painful truths ever since he began working with the Reverend Al Sharpton on education reform. Now, Gingrich tells us, it is very clear that neither the previous administration nor the…

Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

…corporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments, as an instructional support into the curriculum.” When not imposing his religious beliefs on other people’s children, Walters appears far more concerned with grabbing microphones and hopping in front of the nearest television camera than actually providing students with a quality education. His staunchest supporters are turning on him because he has simply failed to do his job, avoiding any…