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Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

…a 74-page document on the internet. According to J.M. Berger, an expert in online extremism, Tarrant’s manifesto is “clearly a statement of ideology,” described as white nationalist, and the author “is a white supremacist, and anti-immigration and anti-Muslim.” There is no indication in Berger’s analysis that Tarrant included statements that would characterize his ideology as a form of Christian nationalism. If Christian nationalism is not the pro…

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White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

…hite and non-Christian populations) is built up over time, largely through online portals that function as echo chambers for the blend of history, conspiracy theory, and racism that produces and sustains white Christian nationalism. And we should note that it’s really a resentment movement that wears religion like a hood ornament or team colors. In such a definition, these nationalists are trying to retake what they presume to be lost: white and C…

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Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

…nd Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) recently hosted a webinar on their Online Academy featuring Alison Gill, vice president for legal and policy affairs at the American Atheists; Elizabeth Reiner Platt, director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at Columbia Law School; and me. I provided an overview of Project Blitz; Gill outlined the Project Blitz program, including a preview of the prime focuses of the 2019 Project Blitz manual…

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Should Satanic Temple Have Threatened Netflix Over Baphomet Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series?

…ple’s statue couldn’t display female breasts because it was designed to be installed on government property. They also added two children, staring lovingly up at Baphomet. The Church of Satan, a rival organization, objected to these changes, claiming they suggested transphobia and even pedophilia. This image, and not Levi’s original, is the one that appears in Sabrina. Even the children, who sculptor Mark Porter modeled on real people, are nearly…

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DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

…rs in the last 20 years. However, Racine announced the establishment of an online portal (ReportClergyAbusetoDCOAG.com) to accept abuse complaints, and on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu announced the establishment of a hotline and email address to collect reports of abuse by clerics of any faith. Also on Wednesday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he had opened an investigation into clerical sexu…

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Louis C.K., Paige Patterson, and the White Male Forgiveness Charade

In 2012, the now-defunct online magazine Gawker published a celebrity blind item about a famous comedian who liked to pass his time by masturbating in front of and exposing himself to young female comedians backstage at shows. It was quickly surmised, due to reports from within the industry and from people in the know, that the item referred to established comic heavyweight Louis C.K., whose eponymous FX comedy show was in the second year of a fi…

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Atheists Miss Another #MeToo Moment

…chick spearheaded an exhibit featuring atheist women who’d been targets of online and real time stalking and harassment. During this period, some organizations implemented anti-sexual harassment and professional conduct policies for secular events. These policies were band-aids over the real issue of power, control, and authority in movement atheism, which is still in the thrall of global figureheads such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, while p…

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Dehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism

…l, an us-versus-them attitude infected our public sphere. In-groups formed online and IRL as various symbols and labels came to define various political tribes. Donald Trump harnessed the instinctual force of tribal epistemology more than any other candidate. His call for a border wall, his promise (and attempts) to ban Muslims from the country, and his overall willingness to reduce the world to real Americans (i.e. those with Trump, who said “I a…

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The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

…rsessionist talk and often a bloody history to go with it. Each successive installment of Abrahamic religion at some point sees itself as a new and improved version of the older. Each new stage of Abrahamic religion in some way “fulfills,” “completes,” “supersedes,” “replaces,” and most often pushes aside the older. The Qur’an marks progress over the New and Old Testaments of the Bible, as the New Testament improves upon the Old. Islam replaces Ch…

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

…writings, and more recently the National Catholic Reporter reported on an online movement to name him a “doctor of the Church.” Recent scholarly research, however, should cast doubt upon any such movements, as Teilhard’s positive influence may not be able to overcome his commitment to and employment of a philosophy of eugenics and social Darwinism. From censure to pontifical acceptance Born in 1881, Teilhard wrote dozens of books and hundreds of…

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