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Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…n the cradle, the cat on the roof, the non-contacted tribe member in Papua New-Guinea—they all exist without a shred of knowledge about God, and are doing just fine, most of the time. As an apologia for God, Copan’s book may work for those who don’t need an apology. But for religious skeptics, god-Haters (misotheists), and atheists, Copan’s book can do very little to dispel their doubts about God’s foresight, wisdom, goodness, and even existence….

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…country is located in the Timor Sea between Indonesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea. It gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 and has since worked to build itself as an autonomous nation-state in the region. Timor Leste is known as a region leader on human rights and the PM’s statement confirms that. ‘Everyone has the potential to contribute to the development of the nation, including members of the LGBT community,’ De Araujo said in a vide…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…e? As argued by Dale Eickelman, Jon Anderson and the other contributors to New Media in the Muslim World (Indiana U. Press, 2003), new media access to traditional Muslim authoritative resources is forcefully challenging the most conservative modes of Islamic authority, allowing those who previously had no voice to decide for themselves what to believe and why to believe it, whether those in traditional positions of authority like it or not. For Ch…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…ork, and new algorithms will make it easier for internet search providers to vet civilian generated UAP reports. The consolidation of knowledge of UAPs to military witness testimonies, and the use of internet algorithms to monitor non-military testimonies represents a new development in this new religiosity of the UAP, what Carl Jung has termed “a new mythology.” For scholars and students of religion, this provides a rich opportunity to examine th…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and does not explicitly mention homosexuality. But section 361 of a draft new code states the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex is 15 to 20 years in jail and a fine of 50,000-500,000 Central African francs (£60-£600), according to a document seen by Agence France-Presse. The cabinet claims that the measure is intended to “protect the family and to comply with Chadian society”. It will go before MPs and…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Hulu’s ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’ Shows That We Can No Longer Ignore Connections Between Religion and Drugs

By Hollis Phelps

…tive effects, but the metaphor is more ambivalent. Himself a regular opium user, Marx knew its benefits as well. Religion may be the “opium of the people,” but that’s also because it’s a “protest against real suffering,” “the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition.” For the individuals presented in the episode, religion replaces methamphetamine, providing the “heart” and “soul” they once sought in a chemical substance. Mo…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…be impolite and honest.” The collective groan of people who are put off by New Atheism’s air of arrogance and self-righteousness is likely dwarfed by the collective groan of atheists who are tired of this rude and cavalier minority taking center stage. Users like Hakan represent a highly visible attitude among atheist movements today. When non-believers insist that they are inheritors and owners of The Truth, many people, understandably, view them…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…d a more playful dimension. Although we cannot foresee the exact nature of new or evolving conspiracy theories that may emerge in 2024, it’s likely that the pervasive conspiracy theories of 2023 will continue to influence the political landscape, particularly in the context of the 2024 election. In any event, belief in conspiracy theories, often rooted in fear, perceptions of injustice, distrust in societal institutions, and feelings of disenfranc…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…fact, be a fascist. Trump’s “Reich”-scandal is also symptomatic of what a new generation of historians like John S. Huntington and David A. Walsh have argued recently: that not only is there a native form of fascism to the US, but that the assumed “firewall” between “respectable” conservatism and far-right radicals, amongst them Neo-Nazis and fascist sympathizers, has either never existed at all—or has at the very least been very porous from the…