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QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…cond, we may see factionalism in the movement, with some followers being siphoned off into other movements and groups and continuing their activism in ways that become only loosely tied to QAnon. Third, we may see the movement carry on as if nothing has changed. Many of these followers may instead be rejuvenated in their quest, arguing that, as their ally in the White House has been defeated, they need to come together and fight harder than ever b…

Bibi’s Megillah to Obama

By Sarah Posner

…the Megillah being read is one of them, using it to provoke a war is not. Joel Rosenberg, the messianic Jew who has been thirsting for some time for war with Iran, writes in an email to supporters: [W]hat I appreciated most about the speech was Mr. Netanyahu drawing the AIPAC audience’s attention to the Biblical story of the Jewish Queen Esther, whose prayers and fasting moved the Lord to intervene to save the Jewish people from a Persian tyrant…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…and privilege despite declining demographics. Further loss of prestige and numbers will not automatically translate into the loss of power for a group that’s doing everything it can to maintain minority authoritarian rule. But even so, America’s trajectory of rapid religious disaffiliation since the 1990s seems bound to catch up with the white, right-wing Christian population eventually. Conservative Christians and social scientists have already b…

The Failure of Obama’s Faith Strategy Revealed

By Sarah Posner

…alled was one of the religious leaders he considers a touchstone, the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, the pastor of a conservative megachurch in Florida. “Some of the faith communities are going to be afraid that this is an attack against religious liberty,” Mr. Hunter remembered telling the president. “Absolutely not,” Mr. Obama insisted. “That’s not where we’re going, and that’s not what I want.” Even some of Mr. Obama’s friends in the religious community…

Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

By Michael Schulson

…me…The sun shall turn into darkness, and the moon into blood,” the prophet Joel explains. The book of Acts, in the New Testament, restates the point, and in Revelation the moon becomes “as red as blood.” Blood, warfare, and Nostradamus-style speculation make for good entertainment, and Hagee’s book reportedly had a print run of 750,000. For the film, he enlisted award-winning filmmaker Keith Miller as director. Producer Rick Eldridge told RD that…

Religious Leaders Press Obama for Exemption from Executive Order Barring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…d, national unity and religious freedom.” The letter’s signatories include Joel Hunter, pastor of Northland Church who is known as a “spiritual advisor” to the president; Larry Snyder, CEO of Catholic Charities USA; Pastor Rick Warren; and Michael Wear, faith outreach director for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and a former staffer in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A White House spokesman declined to address…

Evangelical Tells Beck He’s “Off The Reservation”

By Julie Ingersoll

…encouragement to “join Glenn in morning prayer” with his Daily Spiritual Thought. Beck’s friend and sometimes sidekick, David Barton, later came to his defense, saying he was more Christian than Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Jim Wallis, or Joel Hunter. The rift between the anti-Mormons and Beck defenders in the religious right could have an impact of the tenuous alliance between the religious right and the tea party — and it could play a role in a…

Turning Point Efforts to Export Drag Queen Attacks and ‘Take Back Universities’ Marred by Fringe Associations and Farcical Missteps

By Matthew Boedy

…ers push their children through a narrowed street. The group is largely outnumbered by a counter-protest calling them fascists from the sidewalk. Police in bright yellow jackets mill about to keep the peace. This could have taken place in Texas or New York City, but the scene described took place on March 25 in South London, England. The organizer, Turning Point UK—an offshoot of TPUSA—was engaging in a third protest of a local drag show. The same…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…ide of what looks from the outside like garden variety Christianity. Think Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes. These contemporary hucksters don’t claim that a change of attitude can heal broken bodies (does anyone besides me miss Oral Roberts?), but they most certainly do claim that positive thinking can do wonders for broken credit. Slipping wishful thinking into Christian camouflage makes the medicine go down easier. I mean, when it’s 1920 and a dude na…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ion and National Review cruises and now, welcome aboard an Ezekiel cruise! Joel Rosenberg’s Flash Traffic newsletter reports that he and his wife recently returned from a Boston to Montreal cruise with “about 350 Precept Ministries leaders and donors, teaching the Bible prophecies of Ezekiel 36 and 37 (the rebirth of Israel and the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land in the last days) and Ezekiel 38 and 39 (the rise of a Russian dictator…