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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

…, I think of the ways in which principled religious criticism can easily devolve into unthinking prejudice. I can think of any number of examples from atheist conferences I’ve attended, such as the time I watched with dismay as attendees shouted “show us some ankle” at women wearing burkas for a satirical musical performance, or when a group of fundamentalist Muslim protesters was encircled by a crowd of hundreds of atheist conference attendees sh…

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Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

…ither senseless nor random, and the vast majority of such incidents here involve white men. Racism holds a terrible logic, for a concept with no grounding whatsoever in science or morality, yet too many white people don’t see any patterns. Indeed, something along these lines had prompted me to tweet my own discomfort on the morning of the Oak Creek attack: https://twitter.com/edrescherphd/status/232208487675994112 The common denominator Others hav…

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No Room for Non-Theists at Boston Interfaith Service

…Epstein’s Facebook page and Twitter feed shows the Humanist chaplain at Harvard University responding to the needs of his community during a tragedy—providing pastoral care and other services customarily performed by chaplains. On these pages one can find information about vigils, as well as emergency contact information for those students stranded during the city lockdown in the course of the manhunt for the two bombing suspects. Epstein’s Facebo…

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Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

…radio program, if Holmes had accepted Christ into his life he would have never committed such a crime. Meanwhile, Vision America Action President Dr. Rick Scarborough claimed that it is the removal of God from the public square that has left God no choice but to lower the divine “hedge of protection” of innocents at a movie theater. According to Scarborough, God mercifully (though in theologically suspect manner) chose to intervene only after 12 m…

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The Internets Own Your Religion

…onolith, and there is no universally recognized religious leadership, it becomes hard for someone to come forward to act as a gatekeeper. Even if there were Catholic-style hierarchy, you can imagine the type of games that could be played with granting access to use of the domain. For example, would nuns invested in social justice be allowed to register under “.catholic”?  In the case of Muslims, we don’t know who is registering these gTLD and to w…

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Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

…minors or people with disabilities, consensual or no, or who communicate HIV via gay sex, regardless of condom usage or consent; Jail for anyone who doesn’t report suspected gay people within 24 hours; A ban on the “promotion” of homosexuality so open-ended that it would endanger HIV/AIDS treatment and sexual health clinics in the country and could effectively exclude gay people from petitioning the courts by making those representing them liable…

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NC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”

…e in North Carolina opposing Same Sex marriage has unleashed a stream of invectives from fundamentalist pastors hoping to one-up each other on their homophobia. None, however, could outdo the most recent contestant to the fray, Pastor Charles Worley, who said that lesbians and gays should be “penned up with a fence, and food dropped down to them. In a couple of years, they would die, because they can’t reproduce.” Meanwhile, don’t bother to look u…

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Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

…critical of the local authorities’ forced abortions which he believes to have violated women’s rights.” LifeSiteNews.com, a nonprofit anti-abortion news service, has championed Chen’s cause, publishing numerous stories and opinion pieces about the case over the years. “[…] Chen is not the kind of activist that American authorities would have wanted to help,” claimed Julio Severo a blogger for LifeSite, “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are shamele…

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Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

…dependent) abortion facilities around the country, yet anti-abortion conservatives only took notice when a Planned Parenthood in northern California started using the prayers last month. The Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s “Forty Days” programming runs through April 27 with events at Episcopal, Methodist, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist houses of worship. Suddenly, with stories in Fox News, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, Glenn Beck’s The Bl…

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Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

…alism and, because of calendrical happenstance, anti-Christ. To some conservative Christians, Google’s iconography is the latest in an ongoing attack on their faith. In a post on Townhall.com titled “Ponder Christian Soldiers Google’s Smirking War On You,” Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell decries the choice of a Chávez “doodle”: “Sure, no Christian was mocked, defamed, arrested, or persecuted. And heaven forbid any believer needs internet gra…

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