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Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…ulate America’s moral power by cutting services and support for the middle class and poor. When survival is the name of the game, how will WMHCC rally the diminishing troops in a desperate bid to hold on to the power slipping from their hands? Is Terry Jones merely on the fringes of US Protestantism or is he at the vanguard of a new cultural movement taking shape in the tattered, crumbling fragments of a once-dominant presence in the centers of po…

Texas Board of Education to Review Intelligent Design-Promoting Materials for Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…us that they had no intention of trying to sneak creationism into science class. In 2009, when the board approved its revamped science curriculum standards that critics feared would pave the way for the adoption of creationist supplemental material, its members took umbrage at such accusations. As former Board President Don McLeroy said at the time, “Creationism and intelligent design don’t belong in our science classes. Anything taught in scienc…

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…imagine. It was a series of massive nonviolent movements of largely middle class and relatively young professionals who organized their protests through Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of electronic social networking. There was also a religious element to the protests. The peak moments came after Friday prayers, when sympathetic mullahs would urge the faithful into joining the protest as a religious duty. But theirs was not the divisive, hatefu…

Marxism, the Opium of the Professoriate?

By Theo Hobson

…e of fatalism. It accepts as more or less inevitable that there is a lucky class, which gets a good education and nice jobs, and a less lucky majority, condemned to insecurity, unemployment, and bad culture. For all its anti-racism, it accepts the economic perpetuation of racial segregation with a shrug. Only Marxism can reject fatalism and see inequality as an injustice that cries out for full and immediate rectification. This is what keeps Eagle…

Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…of belief in the existence of God. On the left side of the spectrum are individuals like William Blake or Algernon Swinburne whom it would be pointless to convince of God’s non-existence. Their poetry is suffused with religious revolt and reverence of one kind or another. They were haters of a God they truly believed in, i.e. theists with a visceral resentment against Yahweh. These are the God-hating purists. But in the middle of the continuum th…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…ses the resources of design to solve social problems, visited my brother’s class in architecture school and described one of the first design contests he held. He asked people to come up with the best design possible for a mobile AIDS clinic for a town in a country in Africa. He posted the deadline, and he waited. He didn’t think anyone would submit anything, but on the day of the contest’s deadline, a delivery man from Federal Express rang the do…

Dalai Lama: “I Am a Marxist, But Not a Leninist”

By Tsering Namgyal

…nstitutions that were allied, during Marx’s time, with the European ruling class. He also provided an interesting anecdote about his experience with Mao. He said that Mao had felt that the Dalai Lama’s mind was very logical, implying that Buddhist education and training help sharpens the mind. He said he met with Mao several times, and that once, during a meeting in Beijing, the Chinese leader called him in and announced: “Your mind is scientific!…

Hey Michele Bachmann,
I Got Your Nobel Laureates Right Here

By Lauri Lebo

…ti-evolution law that would sneak the teaching of creationism into science class. I’ve analyzed the purpose of the law here. What’s really cool about Kopplin’s campaign is that he has lined up support for the repeal from 43 Nobel Laureates. So Kopplin, in an open letter on his web site Wednesday, basically said, “I’ve shown mine, now you, Congresswoman Bachmann, show me yours.” He writes: Does Congresswoman Bachmann really think the public will fa…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…Struggling, admittedly. Focused on what sometimes feels like minor middle-class or neo-liberal concerns like marriage, but it lives on. These are victories, of course. And yet, every year, we’re not sure if the anniversary is something to celebrate, commemorate, or mourn. We’re still here, still queer. And yet too many are not. The 30th wedding anniversary calls for pearls, various websites say. And yet, we have no weddings really, from the feder…

Religious Right Attacks Federal Bullying Intervention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…aws would protect any religious persecution, since religion is a protected class under federal discrimination statutes. On the demagoguery side of the spectrum comes Buddy Smith, Executive Vice President of the American Family Association who asserted that kids can condemn homosexuality without being a bully: ”Activist adults essentially are saying that American parents who want their kids to avoid high risk homosexual sex acts and remain abstinen…