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What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games; then the National Anthem was sung and the band played Dixie. Will and his friends petitioned the administration to tone down the southern jingoism, but were ignored. It was around that time that he became aware that the same flag that he had grown up saluting featured promine…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…lism is, counter to Noble Drew Ali’s original teachings, incompatible with American citizenship—as having the “primary objective” of “connect[ing] African Americans with a proud heritage, thereby circumventing the stereotypical picture of Africa, its inhabitants, and their black American descendants as savage and uncivilized.” This makes the religion, with its embrace of Orientalist imagery and esoteric texts, sound more like the African-centered…

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…traced all the way back to slavery. Even today the only place the African-American community who are adults can meet if they want to have a meeting in a predominantly African-American community is a church. Our Civil Rights history was born in the Baptist church, but our enslavement was also born in the Baptist church. Pastor Pickens has been given until March 4th to respond to the church tribunal. Letters of support can be sent to his attentio…

The Super-Blah Billboard From American Atheists

By Alana Massey

…e target. Secondly, of all the bones they could pick with the Super Bowl, American Atheists chose praying fans as their target and presumably spent a considerable amount of their members’ money doing it? I know that their professed purpose is to protect the civil rights of atheists but couldn’t they have some harmless mission drift for the occasion and join forces with an anti-trafficking group or an activist network that calls out the rampant ho…

The King of Irony

By Laury Silvers

…ng brought into America by people from backwards countries threatening our American way of life. As Americans of mixed heritage, we grew up hearing stories about how our Jewish grandparents faced similar prejudice in the early 20th century and how our Irish ancestors faced more of the same when they arrived in the mid-19th century. Chinese workers faced even harsher legal restrictions with the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese-Americans were inte…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…lf over to tyranny—your health care decisions made by bureaucrats.” “Real” Americans Bachmann’s history of questioning Barack Obama’s American-ness, or of espousing “normal people values,” is rooted in the Reconstructionist conception of “American-ness.” Not just Christian, but their kind of Christian; one who would obey God, exercise “dominion authority,” and, most crucially, is one of their “brethren.” Titus, founder of Bachmann’s law school, ha…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…loose and invisible organization, he sets out to unravel the whole knot of American political fundamentalism. Sharlet, who has since become one of the best journalists covering American religion today (and a columnist for Religion Dispatches), got a remarkable scoop some years back. An acquaintance invited him into Ivanwald, the community in Arlington, Virginia, that exposed him to a network of which few outsiders are aware. He calls it “The Famil…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…tly touched on with my 4-minute, no-budget video was the growing divide in American culture, religion and politics that (according to some well-respected observers) threatens the viability of American Democracy. Beneath the most obvious and salacious details of the scandal lies a Christian subculture that, like a vast chunk of Antarctic ice, had years before begun to diverge from the mainstream mass of secular culture; some, like Hagee’s church, h…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…onalist who specializes in revisionist, Christian triumphalist accounts of American history. “They’ll say ‘that’s Christian nationalism!’” Perkins charges, “no—it’s American history.” Barton delivers a meandering account of the Revolutionary War through a Christian nationalist lens, claiming that “in the American war for independence, national wars were won by local battles.” Based on this, Barton concludes that “we can’t change the national [poli…

Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

…I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” I want to show how relegating the genocide of America’s first peoples to an unfortunate historical side note is foundational to white Christian nationalism. Santorum’s comments represent a widespread understanding of history within the Religious Right. Religious Right leaders, going back to Jerry Falwell’s “I Love America” rallies from…