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Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…(ISS), which looks at the material worlds of the Bible and other sacred texts, and how such texts take shape in the cultural and artistic lives of their readers. No Religion is Innocent in this Story Books have always been symbolically powerful enough that their destruction touches us in ways that other forms of destruction do not. We hear perhaps more about the secular examples of book burning; the Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang decreed that all…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…munications technologies. In 2001, I did a book called The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture, which looked at the whole notion of complexity and how it might be used by people in the arts and humanities. I then looked at how those notions of complex systems worked themselves out in financial markets and the interrelationship of what I call neo-foundational religion, neo-conservative politics, and neo-liberal economics in terms of the…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nity. Fischer, in particular said in a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and 6 million dead Jews.” Such rhetoric from supposedly Christian organizations does nothing but spark hatred and violence toward the LGBT community. It does nothing to create love, peace, or kindness. Those are just my top five. I could have included other events…

The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?

By Haroon Moghul

…madan is obligatory for healthy adults. But if you live in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), for example, where a genocide is underway, then saving one’s life takes precedence. I point all this out not only to underscore that the Muslim tradition is often far more human, humane, and humanistic than many current approaches assume and propose. But also because obligations are inseparable from the consequences of their performance. Which is to say, these ar…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…nd this phenomenon, the use of Biblical passages to sell firearms with an explicitly Christian context, is widespread in the United States. And this shouldn’t be surprising—as Brad Stoddard writes here on RD, “AR-15s are also increasingly the firearm of choice for Christian gun owners who arm themselves—in their minds, at least—in defense against both tyranny and evil.” And from there, that love of the AR-15 goes all kinds of places. One of those…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…e, in February he won the CPAC straw poll; Paul’s longtime opposition to taxation, debt, and the Federal Reserve have made him popular with Tea Party conservatives. One blogger even called him prophetic. But Ron Paul has made a career promoting positions that, while internally consistent, sooner or later infuriate those on both the left and the right. Focusing on how he infuriates the right: Paul’s views on foreign policy are consistently non-inte…

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…i ideology—or rather the world view of cosmic war that the jihadi rhetoric promoted—is a different matter. This view of the world as a tangle of sacred warfare has been an exciting and alluring image among a large number of mostly young and largely male Muslims around the world for over a decade. It is an image that was brought to dramatic attention by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and stimulated by the perception that US military actions in Afg…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…ner then comes to Cairo, or Damascus, or Doha, or Casablanca, meets with ‘exotic Arabs’ (who are almost as exotic to the local population as the Westerners), is given a rather skewed picture of society mediated through the impressions and dreams of the elite, and then flies back to London or Washington “better informed.” This is something that Tahrir Squared is trying to remedy by arranging focus groups for international organizations that want to…

Apocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…yet at all, not at all,” Gen. James Amos told reporters when asked if he expected the mass exodus of troops that Sen. John McCain and other critics predicted if the ban was lifted. Amos was visiting troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province when President Barack Obama signed the repeal in late December. He said he addressed some 12,000 Marines about the change and “everyone said, ‘Sir, we got it. We’re going to do this thing.’” Military chaplains…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…olitik, by decades of Western support for their oppressors, by images from Afghanistan and Iraq, by constant betrayals, to mistrust the US and the West. These masses are now demanding and gaining the political space to express themselves. They will hardly speak kindly of US and Western policy of the past fifty years. Yet they have a choice before them. The choice is to either pursue their interests through rival realpolitik ideological positions…