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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…agnostic. There’s no convincing the evangelical partisans, though. As Metaxas demonstrated at one of the president’s most strenuous efforts at demonstrating his evangelical cred, the National Prayer Breakfast, not even they are buying it. Metaxas’ speech, delivered right before Obama’s, was widely read by conservatives as a preemptive rebuke to Obama’s own “phony religiosity.” Meanwhile, the Rev. Derrick Harkins, the Democratic National Committe…

Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…ober, the Vatican offered disgruntled Anglicans and Episcopalians the opportunity to bring their music and liturgy with them to Rome. I’m not sure what we can offer disaffected Roman Catholics—except for the honesty and the integrity of facing difficult issues and asking vexing questions, such as sexual identity in relation to the New Testament mandate of love. Not everyone will agree with the answers we choose, but I’m proud to be associated with…

Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…onal unit) is evidently concealed in persistent sacrifice to save a human existence.” This doesn’t excuse Teilhard, but it complicates the portrait Slattery wants to paint. Slattery follows this citation with another example meant to show how Teilhard continued to “argue for forced eugenical practices” in a debate with Gabriel Marcel. But the given quote, from Mary Lukas and Ellen Lukas’s 1981 biography, Teilhard, makes no mention of eugenics and…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the way that peace had “become a sort of religion among us” in the period between the wars. And he believed, as the ancient Greeks did, that the surest way to avoid explosions of physical violence was to ritualize athletic competition that imitated it in ways both large and small. The flame, in many ways, was the perfect symbol; the centerpiece of the ancient Olympics was also non-athletic, and it also involved a flame. On the day before the comp…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…f those pesky little voices from unholy and sinful nations like France and Germany. We could find ourselves demanding that other nations follow our commandments and dictates because we know better than they about how they should live their lives. We could find ourselves believing—as George W. Bush blasphemously declared during his 2003 State of the Union Address—that the American people have replaced Jesus with their “power, wonder-working power.”…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…ellect, of handwriting analysis, of “anal fissures.” Those are the florid expressions of his unorthodox theology; Hagee’s statements concerning Jews and the Holocaust actually constitute the more orthodox component. Pastor Hagee has participated, with Word-Faith evangelist Kenneth Copeland and sent out via Hagee’s broadcasting network, a co-sermon in which Copeland declared divine power to be a technology humans could learn and wield. It was a cla…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…lots of money, and a long-range plan to establish their “Father’s Kingdom” between the Turkish border and Iran. Since the time of its arrival in Northern Iraq, Servant Group International has widened its presence, establishing bases in Turkey, Liberia, Indonesia, Germany, and Norway. Can you describe how Servant Group International operates? What is especially distinctive about SGI—and its partners—is its development of a military model of evangel…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…hite nationalists. There was a growth surge during the Clinton years, for example, which were generally considered better economic conditions for middle class people. In the past, the politics of race and nation mattered more than economic hard times. White nationalists will support protectionist measures, and they oppose free trade in capital goods because they oppose free trade (or open borders) for labor. Whether or not they gain traction by cl…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…sitive husbands. The manufactured anxiety about the death of postmarital sex explains a great deal about the sudden incapacity of Americans to defend premarital sex. Is there anything you had to leave out? In retrospect, I wish I’d included more on people’s perceptions that American culture is hardly conservative but rather loose and free: full of alcohol-fueled hookups and Craigslist-facilitated trysts, and that nobody adheres to the conservative…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…sting study in the heterogeneous nature of symbols. To build something so extraordinary with so little explanation created a vacuum of meaning. Much like the Guidestones’ inspiration, Stonehenge, this caused new meanings to be invented. The Guidestones are essentially a spiritual and political Rorschach test onto which any number of ideas can be imposed. Pagans and New Agers created new myths and rituals, imbuing the stones with sacred reverence….