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‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…ion in the Unholy Land and the political and religious situation in the Disunited States of America. Other correlations of this sort exist throughout the world. They are a product of the Great Dis-Ordering of global relationships since the end of the Cold War, which have reproduced and spread as we’ve transitioned from a stable world order governed largely by the United States to a multi-polar world governed by… no one. Hyperlocal affinities Let’s…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…a sign “of the shrinking influence of American social conservatives at the United Nations.” Congressional conservatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) — heroes of the religious right — had joined with Muslim countries in an effort to block the IGLHRC’s application. Lynch observed: In previous years, American conservatives like Smith, backed by the White House and the Vatican, exercised enormous influence on social matters at the…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…ettes extrapolated into larger cultural narratives. As with other Citizens United films, such as Gingrich’s agitprop against Islam, America at Risk: The War with No Name, the experience of a single person is turned into the exemplar of the only just and moral compass. In America at Risk, Zuhdi Jasser was portrayed as the “good” Muslim sounding an alarm that his fellow Muslims were easily duped into extremism by the ready availability of radical is…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…into his story of the KJV’s “radical impact.” Bragg also assumes that the United States is a sort of second, younger Britain. Indeed, he concludes his encomium on the KJV by observing that it “is a book which has informed and enriched two English-speaking empires over 400 years and carried many of its messages around the globe.” Ten years after King James Bible was published, the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America. They found and they founded a…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ache. Compare that cost to the nearly one and a half trillion dollars the United States has spent since 2002 tracking down Osama bin Laden and the two or three hundred members of al Qaeda said to be fighting from the mountains of the Afghan/Pakistan border. It’s safe to say the United States military hasn’t learned much over the generations about how to fight a war against a well-entrenched band of locals who know the country, and the conflation…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…an American road, since it’s so hard to get those paved these days. The United States was able to eliminate Libyan air defense systems in days, and this wasn’t even a full-scale war. Qaddafi has been revealed to be as impotent as Saddam, with an army that can be picked off as so many inert targets in a videogame you have a cheat code for. I’m sure many Arabs and Muslims across the region watched this and thought two things: what exactly was the…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ks for the full inclusion of LGBT people into the UMC: “We grieve that the United Methodist Church really had the opportunity to live into inclusive gospel of Jesus Christ and live into its tagline of Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds and extend its welcome to LGBT people and unfortunately, chose not to do that. We grieve that UMC continues to harm and discrimination against LGBT people. We’re already here in the United Methodist Church and we w…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…o one thing: intimidate us into changing how we practice our faith.” First United Church of Oak Park, a mostly white, suburban Chicago congregation with more than 600 members, is affiliated with two mainline protestant denominations—the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Church of Christ. The UCC has been on edge since credible threats against “liberal churches” were picked up by federal law enforcement in the run up to the anniversary of J…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…ion was so boisterous that efforts to put a question about religion on the United States census fell apart. In the legal and social struggles, Catholics and Jews had effectively helped create a new right in the United States: the right to religious privacy. Concluding his work, Schultz demonstrates how the tri-faith concept softened the ground for civil rights activism and how the “Judeo-Christian” notion became so powerful that even enemies of re…

After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…ovement is not as large or institutionally powerful as evangelicals in the United States, but it is an important transnational node in the growing movements of radicalized alt- and far-right ideologues. The Orthodox far-right in the United States are caught up in the global Culture Wars; whatever political ideology they align themselves with—fascism, populism, monarchism, and many of the other isms—they are typically homophobic, transphobic, anti-…