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Fatwa Allowing Women to Hit Their Husbands is Useless

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…place. The problem is that the fatwa doesn’t address domestic violence itself. It addresses self-defense, which Islam already permits, but not the (mis)interpretation of the sura which is twisted to condone beating one’s wife or solutions for domestic violence within a marriage. Another issue that Krista brings up is the assumption made by religious scholars that women have the physical, mental, or emotional power to fight back. In many physicall…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…just how virulent that hatred has become. Americans are willing to throw religious freedom and tolerance out the window, a posture all too familiar in the nation’s history and sadly contradictory to the sacred principles upon which this country was founded. Opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in New York; the brutal attack on a Muslim cabbie; the proposed burning of Qur’ans by a small church that created a media sensation;…

Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory

By Arri Eisen

…t handle money for many, many generations in Europe have selected for the relatively common independent appearance of Tay-Sachs disease in that population? Geneticists have shown, most famously with sickle-cell disease and its co-occurrence of resistance to malaria, when a mutation occurs independently over evolutionary time in different populations, this usually means the mutation gives some advantage to organisms in a particular environment. Tay…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…cy of groups to polarize at the extremes and deadlock.” This is also precisely how I believe interlocutors with sharply differing theo-political views should be attempting to engage one another: in respectful small-scale conversations, not by tossing fusillades across the barricades. It interests me that the very same Anglo-Protestant tradition I fault for its bad habit of prolix argumentation contains within it a sub-tradition that reflects and…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ttacks on vulnerable human beings at prayer, or about to pray. We want to believe in religious spaces as safe dwellings, as sanctuaries in the most literal sense of the word—but they have also long been targets for Americans who fear change. In the wake of yesterday’s shooting, we have seen quite rational calls for greater religious literacy and appeals to what governor Scott Walker called “evil”. Americans could indeed use a primer on most world…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…ce, it makes them ideal surrogates for the growth of human organs. If you believe in intelligent design and techno-determinism, then maybe this is just indicative of God’s progressive sense of irony. There are a lot of historical and modern developments that older religions could not have accounted for. But eisegesis and wishful thinking are only so convincing. God delivering the Ten Commandments to Moses at Sinai can just as well be read as comin…

Hail Santa! War-on-Christmas Outrage Over Satanic Tree Reveals the Self-Serving Ambiguity of ‘Religion’

By Joseph Laycock

…religious groups like The Satanic Temple. They conceal this paradox by labeling religions they don’t like as “anti-religion forces.” According to RFI: “To say The Satanic Temple, which rejects God and hates religion, is a religion is to render as nonsense one of the most important words in the English language and in American public life.” The Satanic Temple does not “hate religion,” but even if they did, this would not disqualify them from being…

The “Scandal” of the Catholic Vote

By Kate Childs Graham

…ote proved to be decisive…Because those who reject traditional values and religion voted heavily for Barack Obama, it’s a sure bet the culture war will only get hotter. We expect to be quite busy.” – Catholic Vote On Marriage And Family: Much To Cheer About, Bill Donahue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights “The passage of Proposition 8 was the result of an unprecedented coalition of many faith communities and other citizens who u…

The Unsung Speech at Notre Dame, A Postmortem

By Mary E. Hunt

…Day and Sr. Helen Prejean, educator Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, Senator Mike Mansfield, actress Helen Hayes, the aforementioned Bernardin, jazz musician Dave Brubeck, actor Martin Sheen, Justice William J. Brennan, and business mogul J. Peter Grace, to name just a few. There is no obvious connection among the winners except that they are Catholics. Like every such award, I suspect that the choice of medal recipients says as much about those who hold sway…

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Spouts Christian Nationalism Defending Racist Voter Suppression

By Andrew L. Seidel

…aud, rather than taking the opportunity to admit they want to force their religious beliefs on everyone else. Pulling out a dollar bill and reading “In God We Trust” on a dollar bill to justify hateful public policy is straight out of the Christian nationalist playbook. That Hyde-Smith next turns to the Bible and its passages about slavery and thoughtcrime to justify disenfranchising Black voters is apt. She wrongly cited Exodus 20 verse 18, which…