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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

By Becky Garrison

…3, reverted this year to dishing out their faith based programming on fine china in lieu of the fast-food version served by the Trump White House. As expected, media coverage of NPB focused on President Joe Biden’s bipartisan message of national unity and faith in light of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, with even Fox News highlighting Biden’s call to end “political extremism.” Gone were the Trumpian outward displays of a politicized version o…

My Bible and the Bill of Rights

By Linell Cady

…s All in the Family and The Jeffersons, and a longtime liberal activist. In 1980 he founded the People for the American Way, an organization designed to counter the growing influence of the religious right. While this latest initiative is a vehicle for his liberal political values, it has taken on a far more religious cast, reflecting the post 2004 shift on the left to “get religion.” “This is,” says Lear, a Jewish secularist, “a very positive dev…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…defined.” The attack on UN’s advocacy for LGBT Human Rights continues on a number of fronts. On November 18, an effort by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation moved an amendment that would strip language regarding sexual orientation and gender identity from a resolution regarding “extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.” More from OutRight Action International: Today [November 18], the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assem…

In the Name of the Father, Son, and Q: Why It’s Important to See QAnon as a ‘Hyper-Real’ Religion

By Marc-André Argentino

…d in American evangelicalism and neo-charismatic movements developed in the 1970s and 1980s—specifically theology involving a worldwide cabal that controlled governments and aimed to control the freedoms of people through technology, medicine, and liberalism. For example, QAnon reworked elements of the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) panic (aka “satanic panic”)that originated in the U.S. in the 80s. SRA was the belief that a global network of elites wa…

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…e stories, and they happen in schools a lot. It happened once in Belgium in 1999. People got headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and trembling, and they thought it was from drinking Coca-Cola. It spread to five other schools and 147 students total. There were 943 calls to the poison center. It ended up costing Coca-Cola somewhere between $100 to $250 million dollars to try to deal with it. Wow. There’s a fantastic book…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ld sexual revolution, as well as of the feminist and men’s movements of the 1960s to 1980s, for its own sexually conservative ends.” * * * Religious album of the year: The Chemistry of Common Life, by Fucked Up. Pitchfork says this album “could possibly revitalize hardcore.” I think it might give the New Atheism some much-needed soul. There’s lotsa roaring guitar, some trippy sound effects, backup singers, and some surprisingly pretty rock flute a…

Ask a Muslim: No, Dear Reader, Sex-Obsession Isn’t Confined to Muslim Nations

By Haroon Moghul

…zil, Australia, Indonesia, or Kazakhstan? How is it that one member state, China, has more people than the other four combined, and yet is treated equally? The Palestinians were told, in the run-up to 1948, that their country would be divided according to international law. In order to be a part of the body that made that decision, however, they would have to first forfeit half their land. Then they could be part of it. If that isn’t dhimmitude, I…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…e on the ground. The most important stops on that trip were in New Orleans, 16 months after Katrina, and in the Rio Grande Valley, where I accompanied a team of experienced organizers on a tour of the region where the shantytowns along the Mexican border had been organized more than a decade earlier. I don’t pretend to have done a full-scale ethnography of the Southwest IAF network. How could one do that in a summer and a winter? Rather, the book…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…de perpetrated by state actors. This continues to date, as we push against China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims, the Myanmar junta’s persecution of the Rohingya Muslims, the Israeli dispossession of Palestinians, and calls for genocide against Muslims under a far-right regime in India. It levels the playing field in which Muslims of other denominations and persuasions can freely share their beliefs. This is especially true for minorities within mi…

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Biden’s Embrace of ‘Victory Culture’ is a Victory for Toxic White Christianity

By Peter Laarman

…John Wayne that Kristin Kobes Du Mez and Katherine Stewart write about. The 1980s provocateurs channeled White Christian rage into an array of nasty culture wars. But culture war skirmishing couldn’t really satisfy the sadism, the urge to totally annihilate the enemy. And in this respect the 1989 collapse of the old Soviet Union posed a problem: what would happen to the American psyche, the American will to fight, in the absence of a worthy extern…