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Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…e of hope cannot live without technique. For that reason, the relationship between hope and technique is a delicate and complex problem, and I do not oversimplify. But, because my theme is hope, I am driven to consider the ways in which technique may nullify hope. In the Bible, technique, the capacity to reduce life’s mysteries to manageable, discrete elements, is embodied in the wise men of Pharaoh (Exod. 8) who are called magicians, in the wise…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…Muslim world, only two other countries legally mandate the veil: Iran and Afghanistan.) There must be an explanation for why a journalist would make such a broad, unsubstantiated statement, and it returns us to the simple need to define Arabs as either secular (like us) or religious (unlike us), an effect of which is a confused causation. Namely, because many Arab states aren’t democracies, they must be Islamist states, where of course women must…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…is inherently violent comparing responses to the planned Qur’an burning in Afghanistan to the responses of American Christians to desecration of their sacred symbols, completely ignoring the distinctly different political contexts. Another identified himself as a Christian of a distinct stripe by advocating burning phone books that advertise abortion and then said he doesn’t have a Qur’an but if he did he would “feed it page by page to (his) goat…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ists around the world were surprised to learn that Harris is actually a Marxist because her Dad is a Marxist professor somewhere and because (just like Jesus) we’re always exactly like our Dads. According to Trump, babies in the US will be executed by Harris when they’re born. Which might have been a valid point were he referencing her comment that she wanted to “[ensure] that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world”—a fighting force t…

The Religious “Right” to Denounce Homosexuality

By Sarah Posner

…he religious right is taking one of its civilian crusades — to paint homosexuality as a religious war between the equal rights of sexual minorities and the supposed “right” of “Christians” to preach against homosexuality — to the military. At its core, the war against the “homosexual agenda” pits the rights of LGBT people against the “Christian nation” mythology. Since we are a Christian nation, the argument goes, our laws must reflect that Christ…

Washington Post Blogger “Proud” To Have Shared Stage With Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…Wilders is no friend of the U.S.: he opposes Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan; he believes development assistance is money wasted; he opposes NATO missions outside “allied” territory; he is against most EU initiatives; and, most troubling, he forments fear and hatred of immigrants. Let’s sum up: the Post’s On Faith, which has a stated mission to promote “intelligent, informed, eclectic, respectful conversation,” has hired a blogger who de…

Irony Thick in Bush Interview with Focus on the Family

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ife” after starting two wars that has left more than 48,000 people dead in Afghanistan and 1.6 million dead in Iraq. “I think the role of a leader is to understand there are differences on the issue of promoting a culture of life,” he says. “In other words, (we need to) convince people that we’re a more noble society if we honor life, without somebody castigating somebody based upon a differing opinion.” Then again, the only “life” that matters to…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…he West Bank. Israel annexed twenty-eight Palestinian villages after the Six Day War, dramatically expanding the traditional footprint, which has expanded further in the decades since… As emotionally satisfying as it may be for Jews the world over to hear Netanyahu’s defiant claim of ownership, Jerusalem is home to another people too.” Sarah Palin, it turns out is a better apologist for Israeli government actions than many American Jewish publicat…

Not His House: Archbishop Oversteps, Opposes Repeal of DADT

By Eugene McMullan

…required to bless same-gender unions or to “condone” (how patronizing!) sexual love between persons of the same gender. While the Archbishop has religious authority over the Catholic chaplains in the armed services, their primary allegiance is to the military and the president. So long as they actually serve in the military, they answer to the president, not the prelate. Canon law and catechism are irrelevant to the debate about lifting DADT….

Obama Gets Religion in Indonesia

By Hussein Rashid

…i-faith, multi-cultural, economically developed democracy in a Muslim context. Obama, in touching on all of these points, also demonstrates a more mature use of religious language that hints at future foreign policy goals. The president approaches Indonesia as an equal in his speech. Unlike Cairo, where the (Arab) Muslim world was treated as unequal potential partners, the Indonesians are treated as a country worthy of America’s respect. Cairo was…