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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…k angle was unavoidable, especially in the context of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “However, I would hate to see Taqwacore stall in public discourse as a form of exotica,” he wrote. “Their songs are actually quite catchy, with interesting dynamics and a variety of sound textures, all of which are a testament to their musicianship.” The book now represents a new American exotic, a testament to the wide diversity of religious, immigrant, conver…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…e terrorist attacks on 9/11 and justifying the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the ambivalences and valences of Abraham Lincoln’s invocation of God during the torturous American Civil War is miles away from current President Barack Obama’s easy evangelical sensibilities about faith in his God. God is My Homeboy Of course beyond all of these vexing theological questions on the political scene are the numerous ways the term is deployed…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…The one advantage of religiously-based morality—the fact that it claims to promote “absolute” or “objective” values—is also its greatest weakness. For one, religious ethics require belief in certain theological doctrines or sacred texts, limiting moral discourse to one religious tradition and excluding the majority of humanity. In an increasingly pluralistic and globalized society, religiously-based ethics cannot produce any sort of moral consensu…

Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…ry war-of-choice in Iraq, “legalized” torture, a carelessly managed war in Afghanistan, little-to-no action to repair the earth’s environment, presidential sniping at evolution being taught in schools, an anti-sex education campaign, ties to the apocalyptic “End Times” evangelical/fundamentalist Christian Zionists (that skewed Bush’s Middle East politics toward the State of Israel in a way that was harmful to all concerned—not least to the State o…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…iatives office stands at the center of the domestic agenda. We press on in Afghanistan and Iraq, even as the president heads to Muslim countries in search of dialogue. Meanwhile, Newsweek has proclaimed “The End of Christian America”; with the Bush administration gone and churchgoing on the decline, perhaps the great, religion-infused culture wars of recent decades are over. For all my complaints about particular policies, I can understand what so…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…ately how disappointed they are in Obama’s policies on torture, detention, Afghanistan, banking, and a range of other issues. But in terms of day-to-day operations, they exhibit perfect message discipline. They find no fault at all with the fact that the person now in charge of faith-based programs at White House, Joshua DuBois, first showed his chops as Obama’s religious outreach coordinator; so that this president’s re-tooled Office of Faith-Bas…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…s are collapsing, Russia invades Georgia, the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, Pakistan is on the verge of imploding, we don’t even know if the dictator of a nuclear North Korea is alive (and, if not, who is running that country), Iran may be building a nuclear weapon, and they are crawling all over one another to pledge their allegiance to…Israel? What exactly is going on?! Answers came from all sectors. “They’re pandering to the Jewish…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…tually becomes neo-liberal economics. The Reformation was a product of and promoted a communications revolution in terms of print. Conservative Protestants have always been the first to understand the significance of new technologies. I think the reason for that is the Protestant preoccupation with the Word, and they get the Word out however they can. For a long time it was print. In the early 20th century it was radio. By the forties it was telev…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…dition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and then an evening program featuring a variety of religious and community leaders. Muslim leaders are asking their followers to ignore what they are calling the “Dove Outreach not-a-church” and its “not-…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…ng books on the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War writ large, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq and, to my knowledge, there aren’t. It has been almost seventy years and still there isn’t a good religious history of American involvement in the Second World War. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I grew up in Minnesota. Pissing people off terrifies me. I’m only slightly more comfortable with the concept of ple…