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Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

In Memphis, Michigan* some residents have taken umbrage with the sign outside a local Baptist church. It reads “God calls pastors to have their own wife thus avoiding fornication!” Some residents feel that the sign targets Catholics. Others just don’t like the use of “fornication” in public. A church billboard in Texas admits that Christians are “jerks.” A church in Charlotte, North Carolina won’t allow a Mormon couple to serve as leaders in thei…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…hdraw funding for Planned Parenthood highlighted the role of Eve Sanchez Silver, founder of a little-known group called the International Coalition of Color for Life. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sanchez Silver, a former medical research analyst for and charter member of the Komen Foundation, has been a leading advocate against Planned Parenthood within Komen. The International Coalition of Color for Life frames its mission as “protecting m…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

Like for Halloween and Christmas, the sales pitches arrive well before the actual event. Television, radio, newspapers, piles of merchandise in stores you visit, and blogs all announce: Back to School! For some it’s kindergarten, for others, the very first day of college. School is starting soon. And that may mean losing your religion. And no, not the R.E.M. song. Nor, indeed, most of the definitions of the phrase out there—losing your temper, gi…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…mer deprogrammer who has no credentials in the relevant fields but was involved in the Branch Davidian case, was interviewed on Good Morning America in a segment entitled “Children of the Cult: 15 Years after Waco.” This report explicitly alleged similarities between the Branch Davidians and the YFZ community. The April 28, 2008 issue of People had a cover story on YFZ entitled “Inside the Cult.” An article on YFZ in the May 5, 2008 issue of Time…

WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

By Evan Derkacz

From yet another person, I’ve just received one of those supposedly curious emails about Barack Obama. But wait, what’s wrong with simply asking questions about our next potential president? Isn’t it about a free and open discourse, that quintessentially American trait? Well, here’s how you test it. When you see “Muslim” replace it with “Jew” or “Christian” (or any number of other affiliations) and ask yourself how you’d feel about receiving an a…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs… It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.” To contrast this with the Zionist understanding of “the war against the Jews” and its consequences: some Jews did actively resist the Nazis by rebelling and fighting against th…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

So. Margaret Cho has a blog. If you picture the discussion of religion in the public square, really try to imagine a square, and people gathered around talking, well…what’s happening on Cho’s blog is sort of like a bunch of people hurling…er…manure. But I mean that in a sort of amused way, not in a tut-tut kind of way. It’s just a funny image. Here at RD we are trying to project some kind of earnestness. In the public square we are the ones weari…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…(creed, code, cultus) by means of which people (a community) orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extraordinary powers, meanings, and values. (Albanese) Religion, I would argue, is a complex adaptive network of myths, symbols, rituals, and concepts that simultaneously figure patterns of feeling, thinking, and acting and disrupt stable structures of meaning and purpose. When understood in that way, religion not only i…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…mendment 48, click here. The battle over abortion rights in California revolves around parental notification: Proposition 4 would force teenage girls to notify their parents if they were pregnant and wanted an abortion. This is the third go-round for a parental notification initiative in California, having been defeated twice before. “Far from protecting vulnerable teens, Proposition 4 would make it difficult for young women caught in abusive situ…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…sider their virtual selves as representing some facet of their real-life selves, and see their virtual selves as shaping their real lives in meaningful ways. In this respect, virtual environments produce the possibility of what Polish artist and game theorist Miroslaw Filiciak calls “liquid identity.” One of the problems of virtual identity became apparent last spring in a course I taught entitled “Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.” I wanted t…