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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…deeper, more systemic problem. People tend to assume on some level that moral values are universal. They’re not. We all walk around with the idea that everybody wants more or less the same thing, morally speaking. In other words, we imagine that our own ethics are reflective of universal moral principles, and it just doesn’t work that way. One might assume, for example, that arguing against calls to shoot fellow citizens over political disagreemen…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…: we’re still waiting for the Pew Forum numbers on this one. But can you really talk Mormons in 2012 without saying the names Jimmer Fredette, Manti Te’o, and Jabari Parker? Te’o, a linebacker from Laie, Hawaii, finished his senior season at Notre Dame as the most decorated defensive player in collegiate football history. Shooting guard Fredette finished his senior season at Brigham Young University as the leading scorer in all of Division 1 NCAA…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ring is part of the story of the Buddha as he matures and goes beyond the walls of his palace. It is what fascinates Americans in contemporary culture, from real deaths like Anne Frank’s to fictional suffering children like the ones on Game of Thrones. What has a crying toddler to do with religion? Obviously, the post is meant to be humorous. But the joke, as Freud argued, performs a fluid and ambivalent role: “we say one ‘makes’ a joke, but we se…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…nstruction depicts otherness as politically liberal, brown, and—regardless of religious affiliation—non-Christian. What’s more, the amped up rhetoric of war promotes a rhetorical violence that of course easily and readily bleeds into material, bodily violence against non-white people. I can’t help but wonder what was more troubling to the people who found Chávez’s image so offensive—the fact that Jesus Christ and Easter eggs were missing from Goog…

Preachers’ Daughters Episode 4: Victoria Apologizes, Olivia is Embarrassed, and Taylor Dances Around in Silly Underpants

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…licit: Emily and Olivia actually used to party together. This means that Emily is also acquainted with Frankie, the friend from Olivia’s past who has recently shown up again. He’s just a friend, but nevertheless, Olivia’s parents Mark and Cheryl want to know who’s in her life. So they invite Frankie to the weekly “microchurch,” their church’s term for small group. “I feel really awkward about my parents inviting Frankie over for microchurch,” Oliv…

Ex-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Lifeway for the Southern Baptist Convention, that shows 64% say it’s “inevitable” that marriage equality will be the law of the land one day soon. Majorities also believe that “homosexuality is a civil rights issue,” and that landlords and rental halls should not be able to discriminate against gays and lesbians. The worst finding, though, for ex-gay organizations seeking to “pray away the gay” is this one: ”More Americans do not believe homosexu…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…n I was 23. I’m not trying to preach; I’m trying to encourage. Some people always walk out, I know that. I think you just have to try it and see what happens. In the end, I’m trying to make myself laugh. I’m trying to inform myself and see things. Like I pointed out in the show Circle, this thing from the Catholic Church was to eat the body of Christ and then drink the blood of Christ. Now I know Christian religions were dropped on top of pagan re…

The Papal Prayer Machine

By Peter Manseau

…Prayers offered ephemerally—whether spoken aloud in a group, or silently while alone—inevitably mean something quite different when they become quantifiable, static, and searchable by keyword. As the old internet saw goes, if you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product being sold. Every tweet is a commodity, even the prayerful ones, and the cash value of prayers is a question Rome might not care to revisit. There is also the matter of th…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…It led directly to the formation of the Philadelphia Coalition, a multiracial coalition that helped get klansman and minister Edgar Ray Killen convicted of manslaughter for his role in the 1964 killings—in 2005, 41 years later. Meanwhile, Molpus just keeps saying gutsy things—like when he told a roomful of people, one of whom was Governor Haley Barbour: Few politicians today use outright race baiting, but we see the symbols some use and the phrase…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…out $100 million in revenues to do so. (Lucky for them, Marriott guests will still be able to enjoy the Book of Mormon stashed in the nightstand drawer in Marriott hotel rooms, courtesy of the mega-Mormon Marriott family.) The hotel chain says that the decision is economic: in-room porn profits have tanked because the porn industry has moved on-line. But it’s being reported that the move is actually an effort to protect Romney against anothe…