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Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with survey questions which ask respondents to define their religious outlook in negative terms—“no religion,” “no religion in…

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

…g to look up and out into the faces of the many-ness of this country. So, once again, this sad state of hoarding and violence has coalesced. In the midst of the myriad injustices that make up everyday life for far too many of us and a world that is a spinning top of wars and its brother and sister forms of violence, the first anniversary of the Charleston massacre was marked by the blood of queer lives and the collateral damage done to their famil…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…one of them: In addition to making it clear just how overwhelming the evidence for evolution is, science has also demonstrated just how dishonest the creationists are. This might be a vicious fight, but the outcome is already decided. The battle is over the American soul. That outcome is probably also decided, but religion still seems determined to take as many casualties as possible on the way out. Yes, the evidence for evolution is overwhelming….

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…-right groups shouting “kill, kill, kill.” There seems to have been resistance from a number of quarters to the planned event, including from the Lviv Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. It was probably unfortunate timing that the festival was planned during Lent, however Bishop Filaret’s strong language about ‘sinners’ makes it clear that his objections were not linked only to the time chosen. A commentary from…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ny time during the day. Gun ownership is outlawed in eight states and “the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.” Home schooling has been “severely restricted” thanks to the lobbying efforts of the National Education Association. Anonymous points out that although President Obama “expressed strong personal disapproval” of many of the Supreme Court decisions that have brought about these chang…

It’s Not Raining Eligible Muslim Men

By Shabana Mir

…egory of dire sexual need). Notions of religiosity, chastity, and identity in the Muslim community will change under pressure of these circumstances. Notions of difference–for instance “Muslims do not date like regular Americans”–and notions of self and other will also change….

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…the picture. Nesting governance, decisions made locally and then nested. Encouraging ongoing learning. The resilience of the skateboarders will save us. The world’s leaders may not. Many of them are too invested in what I call the static quo. I’m not going all the way to hope, as the conference has just started. But I am feeling resilient, which is different from hopeful. It is enjoyment of the periphery, where we are suspicious of any of the ins…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…t bad news because we like to watch the car wreck, but the negative experiences really are outnumbered by the positive ones. The biggest story out of this for me has been how much overwhelming support and acceptance I’ve had, not only as a person of faith who is also a lesbian… But so many people who aren’t personally affected by this have said, “It doesn’t make sense that we wholeheartedly reject people because of who they love and experience the…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…Revelation. In 2005, Mark Dice (using the pseudonym “John Connor” in reference to the Terminator film franchise) organized a Christian group opposed to the New World Order called “The Resistance” and began a campaign to have the monument destroyed. In 2007, radio personality and filmmaker Alex Jones released a documentary entitled Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, outlining a plan by the Bilderberg group and other global elites to extermi…