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MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…ld a ban on religious Christmas carols in a New Jersey school district. In Germany, a group of Catholics want to take the Santa out of Christmas. They want to replace the consumerist Claus with the selfless St. Nicholas. Druidry is now recognized as a religion by Great Britain. That only took a few thousand years. A priest at St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania was fired when pornography was discovered on his computer. The story takes an interesti…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…earth that had contained them and, from Ariel Ticona (miner #32), the telephone receiver that allowed him to talk with his wife Elizabeth after she gave birth to their daughter, Esperanza (Hope)—an event he was able to watch by live video feed in the mine. As we all watched the event unfold, Guardian UK writer Sam Wollaston compared it to an episode of the reality show Big Brother, which features a group of people under continuous video surveilla…

Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich

By Jay Michaelson

…ity but also the US Senate, President Obama, the governments of Canada and Germany, and, most recently, Bob Costas in shouting a collective, outraged “WTF” at the International Olympic Committee for refusing to hold a minute of silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics forty years ago. I have yet to hear any rationale for the IOC’s intransigence on this point. Whatever one thinks of Israel, Palestine, an…

Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

By Rachel Wagner

…le Americans celebrate Labor Day with picnics, BBQs, and weekend getaways, Germany-based FIAA GmbH is releasing the beta version of The Bible Online: Heroes, the first installment of a projected series of MMORTS (massively multiplayer online real-time strategy) “games” based on the Bible. MMORTS games take place in a world that continues to exist and evolve even while any given player isn’t playing. According to the press release, there is an RPG…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…l, against the rest of the planet (a world map only underlines this). Even Germany, a historically strong supporter of Israel, chose to abstain instead of voting no, as it was expected to. Hence an undisputed Israeli military victory was also a diplomatic defeat. Writing for the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz explained Israel didn’t win the short war. (How Gazans saw it deserves consideration.) Britain and France have even mooted withdrawing…

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…arl Schmitt, who, idolizing the role Hitler was carving out for himself in Germany, wrote of the sovereign as a leader whose ability to inflict his will on society was unchecked. Such a concept was essentially theological, Schmitt wrote, not only because the term carried traces of its historical use in discussions of God but, importantly, because the “systematic structure” of the term was theological, evoking a metaphysics of the state that functi…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…orm? In the first half of the twentieth century, countries like Russia and Germany, and the lands in between them, initiated or suffered extremes of war that few countries have thankfully ever experienced, or could conceive of. Iraq might be able to. Just review the last one hundred years of Mesopotamian history. France and Britain had long desired to control the Ottoman Empire’s Levantine territories, Zionists aimed to colonize Palestine, and the…

Another Guardian of Catholic Orthodoxy Accused of Protecting Sexual Abusers

By Patricia Miller

…s being made by the former head of the lay diocesan council in Regensburg, Germany, who said that Müller and a deputy “systematically” covered up the abuse, disbanded the diocesan council to thwart outside investigation, and installed at least one known abuser priest in a parish who then committed more acts of abuse. Müller has served as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the second most powerful position in the Vatican, since…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…by association, a fate many minority communities know too well. Increasing numbers of Sikhs have made the arduous trip to America, crossing from Mexico, turning themselves in and asking for asylum. But instead of receiving help, they are stonewalled—or worse; as David Noriega and John Templeton report in “America’s Quiet Crackdown on Indian Immigrants,” our government seems to be working with India’s to turn victims of police overreach and repress…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ho compared the advancement of gay rights to the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany.” The event that weekend featured American religious right figures Eric Metaxas and Jeffery Ventrella, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. Gay rights leaders have called for the Treasurer to pull out of the event and have warned that the Australian Christian Lobby’s alignment with the US group is a sign it plans to step up its campaign against the LGBTI…