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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…ion against them. Otherwise, these terrorizing atrocities just pass as the price paid for Second Amendment liberty. But seeing these shootings as social acts could change our whole approach. Collective action against white nationalists responsible for many of these recent shootings can be as successful as campaigns against the Mafia and organized crime have been. Nobody believes someone suited up in a “Chicago overcoat” is the work of a lone kille…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…ializes a gay man who has died of AIDS with a rousing performance of Zella Price Jackson’s exuberant “I’m His Child.” Here, the effect of the black gospel choral style is to implicitly link the gay-male social struggle against homophobia with the soul in bondage striving after the salvation of freedom in the Civil Rights era. And then there are any number of other mainstream movies that in one fashion or another use the crossover hit, “Oh Happy Da…

Creationists Always Knew They Were Neanderthals

By Lauri Lebo

…dants of Adam and Eve, just like us,” he told News to Note. But that’s the price of adhering to a dogmatic worldview. Nothing forces you to reexamine anything. You either say that new evidence confirms what you already accepted… or you deny the evidence exists. (Scientists often joke that for creationists the discovery of any intermediate fossil bridging the gap between an earlier and later life form only reveals two more gaps in the fossil record…

Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)

By Jeremy Biles

…e Bucky’s arm restored, and the fractious Avengers reunited to carry out their violent justice. And I look forward to watching those movies. But for the moment, the scene of a dis-armed soldier is worth pondering, for it both calls attention to the all too real price of America’s violence, while also offering an affirmation of human fragility. In this way, Captain America: Civil War offers a vision of a civil counter-religion, one that is not erec…

God in the Inauguration: JFK, Bush, and Obama

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…to deliver the invocation. While Warren’s selection and his prayer raise a number of interesting and difficult questions about the relation between religion and politics, there are other religious aspects and implications of the inaugural ceremony that have yet to receive sufficient attention. Specifically, we would do well to pay attention to the religious dimension of the president’s inaugural address itself. A helpful place to begin is with soc…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…f Skeptic Magazine show that atheists in America fear paying a high social price in coming out as a non-believer. “The Stigma of Being an Atheist: An Empirical Study on the New Atheist Movement and its Consequences,” written by Tom Arcaro, was based on the results of 8,200 people who identify as atheists or non-believers in God. The survey, “Coming Out as an Atheist,” was posted live on the Atheist Nexus Web site for four months from September to…

Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…the holiest site in Judaism]. On the other hand, although in much smaller numbers, there are Jews who regard the very presence of the mosques as an obstacle to the redemption of the people of Israel. A larger number hold a Kahanist worldview, according to which—irrespective of the conflict with the Palestinians—the Jewish state should cast out the Arab minority from within. Some of them are willing to try to implement this goal in a violent way o…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…furcated trials mean you are getting two trials often for nearly twice the price. The mandatory appeals process takes years and literally costs millions of dollars, far more than it would cost to house someone in prison for life. I used to think that a frivolous argument; I no longer do. The reason is this. Given our Constitutional commitments, we will and must have such mandatory safeguards and review; this is a good thing. Therefore, in this cou…

How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?

By Shaul Magid

…lies in Flatbush and Boro Park, a pair of Brooklyn neighborhoods with high numbers of Orthodox Jews, illustrates a new kind of political populism seldom seen in communities that often prefer to stay out of the spotlight. The question as to why Hasidim overwhelmingly supported an immoral, autocratic, and reactionary candidate with such verve and vigor is multivalent. One reading may have to do with a lopsided equation of integration. That is, on th…

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…hen those areas were unregulated, T.R. found rampant corporate corruption, price fixing, cartels, slums, and poisons in the nation’s food. Jeb Bush wants to repeal all Obama regulation. Going a step further, Fiorina said she’ll review all regulation whatever its origin because government is not accountable. But the Republicanism of Lincoln and T.R. holds that government is most accountable because of that new-fangled idea of election by the citize…