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The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…vernment originally founded on an Apocalypse?” As with the First Crusade, there will be blood-soaked battlefields, scheming churchmen, and wondrous signs in the sky. There will be a lot more women in that story, too. And, of course, there will be Templars….

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…e make commitments under duress, ultimately we are accountable only to the higher values of Justice and Righteousness. These words were said by Jews who were forced to convert under pain of death in Spain hundreds of years ago, and more recently by our gay brothers and sisters who couldn’t yet live the truth of their identities. Today, we are thinking about a different kind of commitment made under duress. A big part of our financial crisis was c…

So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

By Dan Mathewson

…would sometimes end his anti-American tirades by raising his hands to the sky in praise of Allah. The duo enacted the far-Right’s paranoid delusion of who really pulled the strings in organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations: America-hating religious fanatics, bent on the destruction of this great land. What conclusion might one draw from the WWE’s consistent displays of Islamophobia? Well, using the same mudslinging logic of…

Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

By Steve A. Wiggins

…don’t lie, and that’s the course we’ve charted. Why doesn’t the alarm stay high on global warming (excuse me, climate change)? Read a book about the state of the environment, this one perhaps. If my experience is anything like normative, your blood pressure will go up. When you put the book down you’ll be as zealous as a martyr in first-century Rome. Something must be done! But by the time I step off the bus my mind will be back to something the b…

How We Got to Super: Grant Morrison’s Visionary Gnosticism

By Jeffrey J. Kripal

…plane surfaces of far more complex and elaborate processes occurring in a higher dimensional location.” A human being now looked like a billion-limbed Hindu deity extending through time as it wormed back from the present moment and evolved forward into the future: “Everything was immortal and holy not as a result of some hidden supernatural essence but as a consequence of its material nature in time.” This is no standard materialism, though. This…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…cDonald’s slated to open later this month, billboards for which seem to outnumber actual Sarajevans: there’s investment here. And there’s the strong potential for tourism, seeing as the country, overrun by war, is outstandingly pristine. Many Bosnians drink straight from the rivers around them. Bosnia’s nature, ecological but also cultural, might be its saving strength. Bosnia seems both in Europe and somehow long ago secluded from it; it has step…

Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

By Cathleen Falsani

…s Crystal Cathedral, often state[d], ‘It was there I fell in love with the sky!’” Interior of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif, 2005. Image via Wiki Commons. Schuller’s congregation became the world’s first “walk-in-drive-in” church and soon thereafter, reportedly at the Rev. Billy Graham’s urging, he began broadcasting services from its sanctuary as Hour of Power. By 1975, with the program was airing in all 50 states and the local con…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

…ove helpful. As an astronomy professor I spent many nights under the night sky with my students, pointing out stars and planets and galaxies. And they would regularly strain and squint, trying to see dim stars I could see easily. This is not because they were blind or my vision was excellent, but because there’s a trick to it. The thing is, to see a dim star you can’t look straight at it. But once you relax and look a little to the side of it, it…

Chicken or Egg? Now We Know…

By Lauri Lebo

…ing creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” Here’s what young earth creationist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis had to say about the articles: Well, the secular world is catching up to what the Bible has taught all along. At our student assemblies over the years, I have often taught children the answer to this chicken and egg problem this way: “What came first: the chicken or the egg? Well the Bible teaches us th…