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Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…kered past with keeping the faith. He keeps it now (or so they think) and that’s all that matters. Salvation is the only required redemption. Testimony above deeds. That’s why the hypocrisy argument — that Paul now professes to be such a committed Christian that everyone should follow Christianity instead of civil law, so why did he mock Christianity in early adulthood? — doesn’t work, with social conservatives, at least. Of course Kentucky is a d…

Talmud v. Torture: The Jewish Case Against “Enhanced Interrogation”

By Benjamin Weiner

…dictates of the prophetic voice through a regimented system of behavior: a code of conduct thoroughly imbued with an ethos and a morality. The most articulate condemnations of torture that Judaism has to offer are therefore presented most effectively as deeply spiritual legal analyses. The best of these, in recent years, was composed by Rabbi Melissa Weintraub for Rabbis for Human Rights, an international organization focusing on a number of progr…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

…d God to continue to bestow his bountiful blessings on the children and their families. Later, I learned that filmed near here was The Truman Show, a movie in which the protagonist (played by Jim Carrey) spends his life not realizing that everything around him is just a carefully crafted illusion and that his entire world exists in a bubble visible from outer space. Truman only learns about the real world when a camera comes crashing from the sky,…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…is diary, Eisenhower referred to Israelis as ‘‘Israelites,’’ and it seems that he imagined that these modern Israelites were deeply religious. When an aide explained to the president that the Israeli leadership was assertively secular, he was astonished. This ‘‘biblical’’ reading of modern Israel also surfaced in American popular culture. Ten years after Israel’s establishment and five years after Truman’s Cyrus comment, Leon Uris published his no…

Mormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

By Holly Welker

…wn and chat.” Kirby posted an apology Thursday on his page, acknowledging that “much of what she describes in her account took place, albeit without some of the more sinister intentions many have alluded to.” Kirby’s defenders may likely protest that my framing of the interaction also exhibits “sinister intentions.” So let’s consider two other framings. Kirby didn’t appear to be asking for sex. Instead, he seems to have wanted a fantasy to surroun…

The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’

By Frederick Clarkson

…not only November but “what’s coming after that.” He did not elaborate on what that might be. “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior,” Standifer said at one point. “Everyone say ‘Warrior.’” “Warrior,” the crowd repeated. The casting of ordinary election activities as acts of war, involving espionage, warriors, and armies is how the NAR leads its people into political action. Whether their infiltration of election systems leads to the kinds of fals…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…an has no less moral ground to claim that monotheism insults his sense of what is and what is not sacred. In my book The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights (Continuum, 2012), I call this “The Symmetry Thesis.” A government that singles out some citizens’ conceptions of the sacred for official protection is guilty of a gross failure of equal treatment. This principle of equality is supported by recent developments…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…use it reflects a history of substituting prayer for action in situations that require material actions that the prayer-givers are powerful enough to take. Alas, we cannot know what’s in Jonathan Merritt’s heart. We can be pretty sure, however, that something similar is taking place in the heart of Brian Zahnd, Christian author and head pastor of the non-denominational Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, MO. In response to author and “recovering fu…

The Facts About ‘Sharia’ May Surprise You

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…nefit” that harsh punishments intimidate populations and deter rebellion. That’s what Mubarak Bala has run afoul of—blasphemy and apostasy laws implemented by the Nigerian government to assert its Islamic legitimacy. But Bala’s situation is also the result of Western colonialism. The reason many Muslim-majority countries have blasphemy laws on their books at all is because Western colonizers put them there. The British littered their empire with b…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…e that resulted in the murder of an HRAPF security guard. The groups said that the pattern of attacks indicates that the perpetrators “enjoy impunity.” Police have suggested that HRAPF’s own employees could have “masterminded” the attack. China: Gay man, lesbian move legal challenges to “gay cure” and anti-gay textbook A 32-year old gay man is suing a psychiatric hospital that he says subjected him to coercive injections, physical and verbal abuse…