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CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…ecause the human sacrifice was only simulated. Ostensive pranks may be the price we pay for conspiracy theories. Since the end of World War II, government research facilities have become to modern folklore what fairy realms and the underworld were to earlier people: a mythic realm that exists just beyond our normal world from which comes dangerous creatures and fabulous powers. Before conspiracy theorists warned that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider w…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…ords about him by figures such as Joel Osteen, have been widely noted by a number of commentators. Burns himself, the owner of the NOW television network in South Carolina and pastor of the Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina, has followed the trajectory of numerous prosperity gospel-ers and megachurch entrepreneurs, white and black, from a modest Baptist background to a history of religious entrepreneurial initiatives attr…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…time. I won’t make people feel ashamed for their tears. In debunking “Law Number Two” about never doubting your faith, you give a wonderful reinterpretation of the “Doubting Thomas” story. Tell me more. I started rereading the story of Thomas while I was writing the book and thought about how all you ever hear is, “Don’t doubt! But believe.” It’s true Jesus says that to Thomas, but this is not really the whole story. There’s also the only other t…

Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)

By Jeremy Biles

…e Bucky’s arm restored, and the fractious Avengers reunited to carry out their violent justice. And I look forward to watching those movies. But for the moment, the scene of a dis-armed soldier is worth pondering, for it both calls attention to the all too real price of America’s violence, while also offering an affirmation of human fragility. In this way, Captain America: Civil War offers a vision of a civil counter-religion, one that is not erec…

Why Corporations Should Have the Right to Bear Arms

By Gordon Haber

…working for their honest livelihood, are forced to rotate stock or request price checks while lacking the security of an AR15 strapped across their backs. Even the security guards themselves, while not actually employed by the stores but by other oppressed corporations, are in most states not allowed to bear any arms more powerful than pepper spray, even though retail security guards are in all cases well trained and fairly compensated. After the…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…that we will have tough discussions and there will be no agreement at any price.” After Tsipras agreed to put the final European proposal to Greek parliament, she said, “I think trust can be regained.” On Nietzsche’s analysis, promise-making depends on our ability to remember past acts of will, and memory is “burned in” by pain and suffering. We remember when we’ve been hurt by another, which motivates us to avoid similar pain in the future. The…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…Jones: The difference between our two programs is that his has a lot more price tags. We want it to be free for people to enter. Also, we’re about building a community not a business. What were the origins of the Sunday Assembly’s Public Charter? Jones: We we were going for a walk in the woods when we heard a voice that told us to go to a tree and dig it up. Like Joseph Smith? Evans: Yeah. Well, we wanted to write down what Sunday Assembly is…

Quiverfull Mom Stands By Trans Partner

By Katie Toth

…y hero.” “It’s the daughters in the Quiverfull movement who are paying the price for the Quiverfull lifestyle,” she explains. “They have their whole life prepackaged and handed to them… their choices are very limited.” Because of the black-and-white nature of the Quiverfull movement, stepping away—no matter what the reason—means leaving for good. Cheryl Seelhoff became a feminist after she was excommunicated for getting a divorce. “Generally speak…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

There is a price for being prophetic. Yet, as historian David Hollinger argues in a recent interview, prophetic ecumenical voices helped change America for the better. Through their risky stances against racism, sexism, imperialism, and American exceptionalism, ecumenical Protestants prodded a reluctant nation toward greater acceptance of pluralism during the 20th century. Today, even a growing number of evangelicals treat those positions as main…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…as other things on its mind. There is no “Jewish vote.” Jews vote. A small number of them vote for Republicans. Most of them vote for Democrats. Every cycle the Republicans try to improve on their last performance, but Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. So Republicans try to draw them in by talking about Israel, an issue very few of them vote on, but an issue that has the added benefit of helping Republicans shore up their evangelical base. Jews mak…