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Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power

By Kenny Smith

…nd ultimately “dismantled and dominated” their opponents before a sold-out Georgia Dome. Following this Sunday’s defeat of the Chicago Bears, the Falcons were described as “proudly professional… they can take a punch [and] they can deliver one too”. Do You Cry for Blood at the Ringside? What is it about football that evokes such primal stuff? People have been thinking about this for decades. In 1929 the American psychiatrist, A. A. Brill, writing…

Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore Is Back With His Constitution-Defying Tricks

By Sarah Posner

…by Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. Moore argues in his letter to Bentley today that “The laws of this state have always recognized the Biblical admonition stated by our Lord,” citing Mark 10:6-9 (“But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. . . What therefore God hath joined together let not man put…

Trump’s Lawsuit Amounts to ‘a Tweet With a Filing Fee,’ But That’s Not the Whole Strategy

By Andrew L. Seidel

…834 The Trump campaign and the Republican party have filed new lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania joining the lawsuits filed before Election Day in nearly every swing state. Trump also wants a recount in Wisconsin. (Under Wisconsin law, parties asking for a recount when the margin of victory is greater than 0.25% have to pay for the recount. Jill Stein paid $3.5 million for the 2016 recount. Trump has 45 days to pay if the recount doe…

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

By PRA Staff

…ictories. Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Senior Pastor at Free Chapel, based in Georgia, exclaims during his speech that “America is the greatest nation on earth. God—well, after Israel, that is.” Franklin lavishes praise on Tony Perkins, calling him a leader “who is carrying the torch, fought the fight, defended this land physically and defended this land even more when he came out of the military by defending freedom.” Perkins next introduces Bishop…

The Constitution, the Bible and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Divide

By Julie Ingersoll

…eir turns at reading. Especially moving was African-American Democrat from Georgia John Lewis reading the Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” My courses have long included the idea that there is an aspect of our national identity that has the dimensions o…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…f reading provisions of particular importance to them. Rep. John Lewis’ (D-Georgia) reading of the 13th Amendment brought the House down. The reading of the Constitution stands as symbolically important for those who insist that the 111th Congress strayed further from constitutional fundamentalism than any in history, or at least since FDR’s reign. It was also an act never undertaken during the years when Vice-President Cheney spoke of circumventi…

Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional

By Sarah Posner

…h in a public setting, without censorship” and “defends the prayer giver’s freedom of speech over an ‘offended’ person’s demands for censorship.” Senior Counsel David Cortman of Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the town, also described the result in a statement as a victory over attempted religious censorship, saying, “Speech censors should have no power to silence volunteers who pray for their communities just as the Founders did.” S…

A Pastor’s Suicide: Addressing Mental Health in Black Churches

By Darnell Moore

…f woeful lamentations because of one’s wrongdoings or unspoken desires to “free” oneself from sin, sinful temptations, and sinful bodies (even one’s own). I can recall many moments in my own life, particularly when I was a member of various churches, when the desire for freedom (from pain, my own indignations, my then-identified sinful behaviors, my melancholia) from the “hell” I lived caused me to deeply long for transcendence. And I thought that…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…offer them. Texas is not alone in having such a statute; in recent years, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Arizona have passed similar laws, and Bible bills are currently making their way through the Wyoming and Arkansas legislatures. While these laws typically urge teachers to avoid promoting or disparaging religious views they give them little guidance on how that might be accomplished. For example, although the Wyoming bill originally called…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…m the ranks of the “black genocide” faction of the anti-abortion movement; Georgia Right to Life announced the hire of Catherine Davis to lead outreach to African Americans by claiming to fight “individuals and organizations that have as their mission to eliminate blacks from America”; and veteran activists have issued dozens of press releases demanding that Obama fight racism by fighting abortion. Proponents of the argument certainly see it, and…