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India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…ernments, which at the time were primarily led by Nehru’s Congress Party. Additionally, Hindu political leaders across the philosophical and political spectrum criticized what they believed was the country’s selective secularism—appeasing and promoting religious minorities at the expense of the Hindu majority. Both sides became forceful critics of the Indian state model, but they emerged with two completely different takeaways, which would shape m…

My Kind of Atheist

By Peter Laarman

…e church and all its works, Schaeffer cannot resist observing that, in an odd and largely unrecognized way, Jesus values are slowly prevailing—albeit not so much among the self-proclaimed Jesus followers as among the secular saints working for human rights and for the full inclusion of the very kinds of people Jesus liked to hang out with: the outcasts and the reprobates, the broken in body and the wounded in spirit. The closest Schaeffer comes to…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…claims soon attracted attention from Western journalists. The Daily Mail addressed the claim that this gospel might “cause Christianity’s collapse,” while the Vatican Insider dismissed it as a “hoax,” charging that the Gospel of Barnabas was a forgery. The dating of the manuscript was questioned by scholars like T. Michael Law, and Christian blogs offered point-by-point refutations countering the notion that this gospel was more authentic than th…

Why Cliven Bundy Wasn’t A Religious Right Hero

By Sarah Posner

…ed enough to couch his nonsense in soundbites and euphemism.” Adam Serwer adds: This all trickles down from somewhere. Slavery analogies are common among conservative figures like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, and it’s one of the reasons many conservatives have fallen in love with Ben Carson. In Washington, the critique of the welfare state is finessed into a more sophisticated argument that lacks references to slavery, and where race is usually dis…

On NSA Spying, What’s With the Silence of the Lambs?

By Peter Laarman

…issue of Orwellian-scale data mining absolutely requires active, unbuttoned critique and protest. What the great Louis Brandeis called the “freedom to be left alone,” though nowhere spelled out in those words, still comprises the very core of the First Amendment, as our president—the constitutional law scholar—surely knows. That freedom is now clearly gone. The president mewls in defense, “but we are leaving you alone: we’re not even actually li…

Vandalism as Conversation-Starter

By Elizabeth Drescher

…oad of the likely culprits. “Some of the tagging was truly malicious,” he added. “The doors of the Roman Catholic church down the road were sprayed with ‘Satan’s House.’ Still, we wanted to respond as someone who cares, as someone who listens, even when the forum for conversation isn’t exactly conventional.” The After School Special version of the story would, I suppose, have the responsible wayward youth come forward to confess: “Ah, Fadder,” a s…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…blame for what he asserts is the success of a supposed Muslim plan for world domination. His view that we should go “back to the ’50s—because we know it works” is a central feature (along with those offered by Sarah) of how Breivik’s analysis could well have been lifted from the talking points of the religious right. The driving anti-feminist thesis of his 1,500-page manifesto is basically this: feminists emasculate men such that they can no longe…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…on. The first is religious. It is the Mormons’ belief system, a system at odds with a ‘secular age’ when actual, as opposed to metaphorical, belief is no longer accepted as reasonable. At a talk last winter at the Harvard Law School, the don of Mormon letters, Richard Bushman, asserted that most Americans live in “a desert of belief.” The demands of secular rationalism have deforested the transcendent and supernatural even in the spiritual worlds…

Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…e” which brought the non-Western religions to the attention of Americans (oddly, he does not mention the changes in American culture brought on by the immigration act of 1965), the growing wealth of Americans, and the waning of the East Coast WASP establishment. These factors, he claims, led to a weakening of Christian orthodoxy and its hold over the American spirit. The traditional churches responded by either capitulating to cultural trends or b…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…I took from Scientology—which I actually had before Scientology from Zen Buddhism and the writings of the Essene Jews—is simply the idea that the body is the temple of the spirit. How do you otherwise reconcile this crazy notion of bodies and spirituality? Except with the notion that the spirit is using the body to have fun and get around in the world. And on top of that, the spirit has no gender! I also think the “emotional tone scale” is useful,…