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Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well Avoid the Label?

By Jay Rubenstein

…e best stories of Roman decadence. Like Nimrod, he built a golden tower in Manhattan, itself a modern-day Babylon. As every fact-checker would attest, Trump speaks lies at a pace close to what’s expected of Antichrist—30,573, by the Washington Post’s count. Trump’s Jewish son-in-law would normally have raised anti-Semitic apocalyptic hackles, especially because this same son-in-law owned a building whose address happens to be 666 5th Avenue (5 is…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…bus reaches the Port Authority terminal and I join the braided streams of Manhattan commuters, I hear piped-in Christmas carols. And not just “secular” ones like “Winter Wonderland.” Pushing through the doors into the chilly New York air with Johnny Mathis singing “Silver Bells” overhead, it strikes me that I have just experienced a tiny cross-section of America’s ongoing cultural crisis. We want it both ways—I realize as I pass the Wired store i…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…a subplot about a country boy who makes good in the metropolis, moving to Manhattan and raising a bilingual son, and there’s one cringe-worthy moment when Reed tries to explain why he’s not judging an S-Town denizen as weird, but just a “complicated, normal person” who’s had some “very different life experience than I have.” Sure enough. Perhaps, as both Spencer Kornhaber and Nicholas Quah have suggested, some of the perceived focus on rural vers…

The Sacred Objects of 9/11

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…just seeing the simplest object.” Early responses from the museum in lower Manhattan show something similar: visual, tangible engagements with simple objects stir the passions. (Holland Cotter called it a “gut-punch experience.”) The Memorial and Museum architects and designers (Davis Brody Bond, LLP and Thinc Design), continually refer to the space as “sacred,” and suggest people will make “pilgrimage” to the site. The language is more than mere…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…munion wafers are actually “death cookies” that take their shape from Egyptian sun worship. The Dawkins Foundation’s claim about Easter being a survival of the cult of Ishtar was also promoted by Final Trumpet Ministries founder David J. Meyer who also claimed that the architecture of Manhattan is modeled after Stonehenge and is likewise a form of Pagan idolatry hidden in plain sight. What does it mean when New Atheists and far-right evangelicals…

How Julian Assange Is Like A Televangelist

By Sarah Posner

…hroeder and the non-partisan group he works for are criticizing Wikileaks. Manhattan Project scientists who designed the first atomic bombs founded FAS more than half-a-century ago.” With regard to WikiLeaks, Schroeder “argues the records could alert illicit weapons traffickers and insurgents to ongoing investigations and surveillance, causing them to sever contact with undercover operatives, destroy critical evidence or move their operations.” As…

Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

By Nick Street

…ts have generally taken place in private homes in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan; usually in basements prepared as religious sites for ceremony. What attracted you to the tradition? Did you consider following the practices back to their Caribbean or African roots? My research focus was here, in the U.S.—not elsewhere—because learning how these practices traveled was as important to me as the practice itself. Unlike Santería practice in other r…

The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’

By Michael J. Altman

…e city council. While they opposed the Park51 Islamic center and mosque in Manhattan, the Anti-Defamation League is supporting other mosque construction projects around the country. And while they opposed last year’s health care reform law, the U.S. Catholic bishops will not join in the repeal effort. Switzerland’s highest court refused to add “Madonna” to its trademark registry because, it argued, commercial use of the reference to the Virgin Mar…

Is Covid-19 Introducing a New Generation to Fears of ‘Jewish Contagion’?

By Amanda Furiasse

…st to New Rochelle, a week earlier when a New York City woman who lived in Manhattan tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from Iran, health officials assured residents of New York City that the risks were very low and there was no need for quarantine measures. As New York Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot said in a public press conference,“While we hoped this moment wouldn’t come, it was something we prepared for. As we confront this emerg…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…the time a Nazi spy joined US businessmen to toast the fall of France in a Manhattan hotel while a Jewish FBI agent investigated. Jay’s project is called A Nazi on Wall Street. During our conversation, he explained why he believes we’re moving into a new paradigm and how the choices made in the 1940s seem to mirror choices being made now in the 2020s. We could have turned fully fascist back then. Let’s hope we don’t do that now. (This interview ha…