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The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…ipt of his remarks survived. The president goes on to say, While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that I’ve always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one o…

Elie Wiesel Distorts Bible in Controversial “Child Sacrifice” Ad

By Seth Sanders

…at unattractive and less-than-ecumenical accusation by implying that Hamas members aren’t “true Muslims,” but members of a “death cult” equivalent to the ancient worshipers of Moloch. A reader familiar with ancient Hebrew texts might already detect a whiff of irony here. While in popular culture Moloch1 is a pagan death-god, in the Bible the only ones accused of killing children for Moloch are the Israelites themselves. Indeed, God’s rage at the J…

Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy

By Nick Street

…his selection of Warren. Religious conservatives have a soft spot for the military, and there is no surer way of driving a stake into the heart of conservative resistance to the advance of gay liberation than to allow the heroism of our queer brothers and sisters in uniform to shine forth. The prospects for same-sex marriage—if that’s your cause—can only be helped by the repeal of the military service ban. In fact, if your long-term strategy is n…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…In this relationship, Israel functions as what Noam Chomsky once called “a military offshoot of the United States.” Progressives support Palestinian rights, and an end to U.S. military aid, as part of a broader commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive politics everywhere, including the U.S. (which, like Israel, has its own ongoing settler-colonial legacy). On his program Restoring Order, White nationalist Patrick Casey, who led the alt-right…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…62 and 1974, Graham personally met the region’s most brutal anti-communist military rulers, including Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Ernesto Geisel of Brazil, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile, whom Graham praised as a “great Christian leader.” Graham wasn’t the only American preacher to wage an anti-communist spiritual fight abroad. During the Cold War, the US viewed the Latin American Catholics’ Left turn after Vatican II…

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Verdict is Unfair

By Juliane Schober

…e election for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), but the military regime put her under house arrest and prevented her from assuming office. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 in recognition of her work for democratic reform, and has lived under house arrest for fourteen years over the last two decades. Her party’s activities are closely monitored and frequently curtailed by the regime. A Buddhist’s Engagement with Civil S…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…ark fortress-like building and surrounded it by a 26-foot cement wall with military towers manned by Israeli soldiers with M-16 machine guns. Cut off from Bethlehem, the holy site can now be accessed solely from the Israeli-controlled side of the imposing cement wall after passing through a military checkpoint. Christians and Muslims are not welcome. As an occupying power, Israel is required by international law to preserve the status quo and to a…

President Joe Biden at a podium with a microphone in hand.

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

By Peter Laarman

…lobal dominance, who glory in the extravaganza that is our trillion-dollar military budget, and who are only too willing to think of this deeply troubled country as “the indispensable nation.” These are not people whose sleep is troubled by the deaths of faraway children. None of this is new, of course. Think back to the era of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” and his aptly named Great White Fleet. But the imperial fever comes and goes. It cooled dra…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…assisting a military mission to recover a crashed ship’s cargo. We meet a military commander who identifies himself as “Father Octavian—Bishop Second Class, 20 clerics at my command.” Clearly there is some interesting church history in the thirty centuries between that future and our present, but the episode doesn’t explore it, beyond a throwaway line to the effect that “it’s the 51st century—the church has moved on.” Of course, Father Octavian i…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…f Barack Obama, had orders given to remove crosses from the chapels on our military installations.” (Gohmert repeats this claim, despite it having been debunked in 2013; the military, according to FactCheck.org, “has a longstanding policy against permanent religious symbols being attached to military chapels.”) In the speech, two days before the National Prayer Breakfast, Gohmert noted Obama’s upcoming appearance, adding, “I am greatly appreciativ…