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Even Calling the Debate a ‘Shitshow’ Normalizes the Threat to Democracy

By John Stoehr

…s making it seem like the president’s attempt to bite out the heart of the republic was too close to call, in keeping with partisan politics-as-usual. Tapper wasn’t the only member of the Washington press corps to whitewash rightwing propaganda and thus make it respectable. Oliver Darcy rounded up some of the headlines from last night: “CNN: ‘Pure chaos at the first debate’; NYT: ‘Sharp Personal Attacks and Name Calling in Chaotic First Debate’; H…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…premised upon racial inclusion and discrimination, hope and reform follow pain and separation. Yet, constant reminders of what’s at stake may be necessary as (ex)CrossFitters forge a new republic of fitness. In Reforging the White Republic, Edward Blum recounts the history of Northern white Protestants abandoning their racial justice commitments to ally with white southerners after the Civil War. This example of white abolitionists opting for whi…

We Need to Talk About Bad Religion

By John Stoehr

…ese are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” A good religion is compatible with republican virtue. A bad religion isn’t. It cannot tolerate equality. Indeed, it makes every effort to destroy it. It’s “God’s will.” This isn’t to say extreme religions are necessarily bad ones. I come from a family of religious anarchists. Christians Gathered Unto the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ—“Plymouth Brethren” for short—are what polite people might cal…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ys Castillo, activist and representative of the Network of Human Rights of Panama. Panama’s First Lady, Lorena Castillo de Varela, announced that she would attend a gay pride march this summer. France: National Front reaches out to gay voters; still reportedly harbors anti-Semitic leaders Associated Press reports on the far-right National Front party’s growing appeal among gay voters. Motivated in part by the deadly Islamic extremist attacks at ho…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…weden: Prime Minister joins pride parade Prime Minister Stefan Lofven took part in Stockholm’s gay pride parade, which drew about 45,000 people, according to Associated Press. Scotland: Father plans 96-mile walk on behalf of gay son, acceptance in schools The father of an 11-year-old boy who was afraid to let his teachers know that he is gay is planning a 96-mile walk across Scotland to raise awareness and money for a group, Time for Inclusive Edu…

How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

By Monica Black

…juridically led investigations or executions. Witch fears endured in many parts of Europe, as they have in other parts of the world. But what caused a great spike in accusations after Germany’s defeat in WWII and the destruction of the Third Reich? Unlike earlier European witch scares, postwar West German witchcraft accusations did not involve carnal relations with the Devil, nocturnal flight, or being able to fall down stairs without sustaining…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…pope will release one of the most hastily written and yet most significant papal encyclicals in the history of the Church, “Of Extraterrestrial Life.” Observers note the arrival in Rome of everyone from Gyaltsen Norbu, the Chinese-picked leader of Tibetan Buddhism to the Grand Dastoor of the Persian Zoroastrian Republic, as well as representatives from the World Council of Churches. There are even rumors that “anti”-Pope Pius XV of the American Ca…

Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion

By Peter Laarman

…ased on the somewhat dubious idea that God gave certain white people the capacity to forge a secular but deeply ethical republic: One nation, Under God…etc. etc. But I don’t think Douthat really gives a fig for anyone inhabiting the nobler tier within that tradition, if only because that upper tier isn’t made of stern enough stuff to suit him. It’s too irenic. There’s too much dewy-eyed John Dewey-ism. He certainly scorns today’s liberals whom he…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…s very much the era of the Second Klan. How can you tell? It’s law and order rhetoric tacked onto The Ending—“make America safe again,” the Southern Strategy as apocalyptic promise. CPAC is now the venue where calls for violence are made, either alongside or else by, the power brokers of the Republican Party; where far-right ideas are laundered into the mainstream. This year, Donald Trump made it the venue for his apocalyptic bid—not for the New H…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…, al-Ghazálí records how he lost faith in the traditional authority of his parents and teachers when he realized that his beliefs were based on the contingency of being raised in a Muslim environment. (While he notes in passing that al-Ghazálí’s skepticism was only overcome by personal mystical experience, Fraenkel fails to consider its implications. In his memoir, al-Ghazálí posited an immediate, prophetic way of knowing, higher than the human fa…