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Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…. Republican Gomorrah opens with two chapters that explore the philosophical call to resistance by popular theologian Francis A. Schaeffer and the insurgent theocracy of Christian Reconstructionism developed by R.J. Rushdoony. This fascinating historic tour firmly establishes the foundation of the book’s main argument: that the Republican Party has been “shattered” by a right-wing political movement justifying its claim to secular power in theolo…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…4 Democratic National Convention that launched Barack Obama onto the national political stage. Responding to “spin masters” and “negative ad peddlers,” he said: …there is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America. After all, even a commitment to argue with each other carries implic…

Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

By Jori Lewis

…, an expression of protest against certain religious tenets, and/or a refusal to align oneself with institutions contributing to the marginalization of gender and sexual minorities. The difference in religious identification appears to reflect thoughts and feelings toward religious institutions more than it does spiritual behavior or beliefs.” But the idea of transgender Christianity still carries shock value for many; in conservative Christian ci…

The Circle Can Remain Unbroken, If Battered And Bloody

By Daniel Schultz

…son for making equitable public policy? The reply of most moral and political philosophers to this question tends to be simply, “probably not.” The nub of disagreement in these circles is over just how dismal the situation is. This is the usual tendentiousness from both Dreher and Hunter. Culture Wars was conceptually an attack on John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus” as the glue of a liberal society. Hunter was anxious to demonstrate tha…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…computer passwords in your head, leaving coworkers without access to critical files. Imagine your loved ones cannot find your bank accounts, or that you die with a secret that you longed to reveal during your lifetime. A deathswitch is an automated system that prompts you for your password on a regular schedule to make sure you are still alive. When you do not enter your password for some period of time, the system prompts you again several times….

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…hu government’s hardline positions. Most voters, having decided that they will always be victims, apparently want their leaders to use force in an endless attempt to prove to the world (but even more to themselves) that they are not powerless victims. Of course that project is doomed to fail. It only perpetuates the conflict, reinforcing the sense of victimization that provokes more calls for force. Since the root of the problem lies in national s…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…lishment clause by installing a granite monument in the lobby of the Judicial Building in Montgomery, has announced that he will try once again to be elected governor of Alabama. Moore, a former kickboxer, served as a circuit court judge in Gadsden, Alabama, during the 1990s, at which time he waged a legal battle to display a homemade carving of the Ten Commandments on the wall of his courtroom. For some of the folks in Alabama, apparently, this s…

Pop-Eye: Blind Faith and the Invisible Font

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…more complex, holistic, interesting, and even entertaining than quasi-logical talking heads discussing words and ideas. Religion begins and ends with the human body; with all its sensational interactions within a sensual world. Religious people touch and taste, smell and see the sacred objects of the world; long before and ever after the conceptual universe of doctrines and beliefs and views of “God.” Tab Two In Hustwit’s intriguing documentary, H…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…visory Council), Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, and Marshall Ganz of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The afterward was written by Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family, contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone, and columnist for RD. (Following the October 1st publication, the book will be launched on October 14 at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, the…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…of the Israeli state. The May 11 appointment with God brought a supernatural realization of His promises to you. Just send in your petition to Rory and Wendy, and they will place it at the altar in Jerusalem. And then let the miracles begin. If this seems strangely, elusively, and creepily enticing, welcome to the world of an apostolic movement sweeping the globe with its claims of prophecy direct from God, supernatural revivals and healings, and…