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Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…piritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars. One part of that army is people like Perry himself, supported by religious right political elites who aimed to cultivate candidates, advocates, and political strateg…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

By Annika Brockschmidt

…meta-criticism of fascism, but the claim quickly collapses. YouTuber “Big Joel,” who recently reignited earlier discussion of the film’s fascist nature, correctly identifies the Persian sexual “degeneracy” and its portrayal as a clear fascist marker: “We know that [the film] is not a subtle criticism of Sparta or fascism because in the subplot the queen is raped by a man who has been perverted by Persian degenerate tendencies.” The inhumanity of…

RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence

By Joel Schalit

Sever Plocker was having a bad day. The columnist for Israel’s widest-circulating newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, had decided in December 2006 that it was time to out Slavoj Zizek as an enemy of the Jews. Plocker attacked the philosopher’s then-latest work, The Parallax View, for its distinction between Israel-criticism and anti-Semitism. “(Zizek) has freed himself from the chains of anti-anti-Semitism,” Plocker wrote, indulging, however temporarily,…

New Poll Shows Evangelicals Vote Democrat Too

By Robert P. Jones

…,000 overlooked evangelical voters in Missouri and 182,000 in Tennessee (a number greater than, for example, all African-American voters or all voters over 65 in the Democratic primaries in each state). • Importantly, the poll also found that majorities of both Democratic and Republican evangelical voters want a broader agenda that goes beyond abortion and same-sex marriage to include ending poverty, protecting the environment, and tackling HIV/AI…

Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

By Sarah Posner

…h.” Beck has never been shy about showcasing rapture-ready end-timers like Joel Rosenberg or John Hagee; his apocalyptic rantings about Islam of late are tinged with that sort of Ezekiel Gog-Magog prophecy — which, in the view of Christian Zionists like Hagee, foretell not only a grand confrontation between Christ and the Antichrist, but between Christianity and Islam. As Anthea observed last week, Beck is clearly trying to tap into those narrativ…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…of Israel—the biblical sites, the history and the borders of the country.(Joel Lion, Spokesman and Consul for Media Consulate General of Israel, New York, Nov. 24, 2010) Denying Israel is Almost like Denying the Faith Palin, whose expertise in Middle Eastern matters was nurtured by former McCain foreign-policy adviser and neoconservative Randy Scheunemann, recently told Barbara Walters that Israeli settlements need to expand, rather than contrac…

Let’s Stop Calling Rape and Harassment by Bikram Yoga Founder Just Another “Guru Scandal”

By Andrea R. Jain

…s revealed sexual corruption and secrecy as central to their lifestyles. A number of yoga gurus have been outed as sexually active, usually with young, white, female students. These scandals have left the American public thinking the “guru model” is problematic for its inherently undemocratic tendencies, suspecting the model is an extreme form of authoritarianism that inevitably leads to demise. In 1993, for example, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad w…

Campaign Calls On Anti-Gay Leaders to “Repent”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rs who have been cheerfully wishy-washy on the whole issue of LGBT people: Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. Osteen, of course, is famous for smiling and squirming when asked about homosexuality, claiming he loves gay people but homosexuality is not “God’s best” for humanity. Warren, appearing on Piers Morgan’s CNN talk show this week, compared being gay to slapping people and taking arsenic. Here’s what we know about life. I have all kinds of natural…

The Ponzi Prosperity Gospel

By Pen Itent

…hat after about 50 years the movement has spread worldwide, with followers numbering in the millions, and you look to see how many of these folks have in fact grown that “arm of the Lord.” Upon inspection you find that the vast majority of them have lost an arm, leaving them worse off and less able to serve than even those old two-armed folk. The irony would be overwhelming. Despite the statistics, and the continued empirical evidence of devastate…

Christian Conservatives Turn Off A Generation Of Voters (Or Maybe Not)

By Daniel Schultz

…rcent of Americans indicated “none” as religious affiliation. By 2008 that number had grown to 17 percent. But among young adults, in their twenties, the percent of “nones” is reaching nearly 30%. The new “nones” are heavily concentrated among those who have come of age since 1990. Why is this so ground-shaking? Because religiously unaffiliated voters, along with seculars, atheists and members of “small” religious sects, are some of the Democratic…