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‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…ared that he wanted all Jews to die. In doing so, he adopted a conspiratorial mindset with a long and ugly history, much of it traceable through twentieth century Europe. A new book tells that story. In his new book, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Belknap/Harvard, 2018), Paul Hanebrink, an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, documents the persistent belief that Communism was tantamount to a Jewish plot t…

My Voters are Smarter Than Your Voters

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…arge audience.” Therein lies the problem. I’m sure I could find 12 McCain/Palin supporters who couldn’t name the Democratic leadership in the Congress but knew how much Palin spent on clothing and had a pregnant daughter. That doesn’t mean they’re stupid—it means they’ve been watching the mainstream media because that’s all that was reported. You can’t really blame the voters for being misinformed if all the media feeds us is the pabulum of clothi…

Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…workers and treat coronavirus patients. Under the circumstances, already-valid mistrust of Samaritan’s Purse is amplified, and New York State Senator Brad Hoylman seems entirely justified in tweeting, “It’s a shame that the federal government has left us unprepared for a pandemic so we’re forced to accept charity from bigots.” https://twitter.com/bradhoylman/status/1245385523495141379?lang=en After all, Samaritan’s Purse requires paid staff, like…

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

…pro-LGBT activists could “threaten the foundation of religious liberty, criminalize Christianity, and demand that Americans abandon Biblical principles of natural marriage.” That panicked advisory itself was widely shared. So when people who themselves believe marriage equality is a threat to their religion, or to their culture, or to their pastor are primed with hysterical scenarios from their leaders, is it surprising that a bit of fake viral ne…

Racist Ramtha Tirade: The Questions We Aren’t Asking

By Joseph Laycock

…another manifestation of the cookie-cutter cult leader. This narrative appeals to readers because it allows us to congratulate ourselves on being smarter than the avaricious, mad, and racist cult leader and his/her duped followers. But while this may feel good, it is intellectually lazy. To actively promote social justice in a religiously plural society, it is not enough to simply sort other people’s worldviews into the categories of good and evil…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…is the case concerning the sanctity of marriage. [Emphasis from the original Alert.] Wildmon said that he is not advocating “tak[ing] to the streets”; rather, that supporters should e-mail “the governor and your two senators, urging them to heed the voice of the people and leave the Prop. 8 language in the constitution.” ++++++++++ Huckabee’s Revenge Has the kinder gentler face of the evangelical movement—the guitar-playing, weight-losing, quip-m…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ence assembled (including theologians’ evaluations of the situation and chemical analyses of the blood seeping from the statue’s face) for submission to the new pope soon after his ascension to the papal throne, but Civitavecchia has not become another Medjugorje or Champion. Grillo has been removed from office. A Stranglehold on Official Religion Why was the Bishop of Green Bay able to keep his job? Why are the visions of Adele Brise, a pious Bel…

HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…t only a matter of the technology available to them. Treating people as vermin to be exterminated was a new thing under the sun. Eugenics programs in United States and later Germany were warm-up acts for the mass slaughters that were to come. Hitler’s ideas, Dr. (David) Berlinski (another senior Discovery fellow) carefully notes, “came from many different sources but no honest account will omit Darwin.” A reading of Mein Kampf makes that clear….

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ul. But the Pope’s message, starting with the title, “The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word,” made clear that the Vatican did not intend to engage in the sort of wide interactivity, distribution of authority, and mashing of diverse perspectives that is characteristic of the Web 2.0 world. The message makes clear that the task of proclaiming the Word of God belongs primarily to priests, and that t…

Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’

By Chrissy Stroop

…from bathroom bills and school sports bans to outright bans on gender-affirming healthcare for minors and members of Christian-flag-bearing fascist mobs shouting “The fist of Christ will come down on you very soon!” at people just trying to attend a drag brunch. To be sure, backlash regularly follows civil rights gains. The beneficiaries of the longstanding White supremacist patriarchal, Christian-normative social hierarchy will inevitably attempt…