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First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ling for insurgency. For insurrection. For the overthrow of democracy. The project it represents wants to replace democracy, not with a “more Christian-minded” government, but with theocracy. Literal theocracy And yes, this is the same flag Mike Johnson, creature of the Christian Right and Speaker of the House, is flying in front of his office. As Onishi and Taylor wrote for Rolling Stone when it was first reported: It represents an aggressive, sp…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…e conservative candidate, even if they don’t like his or her policies. The promise of safety overrides every other consideration. That’s why a glance back at the last presidential election is so useful for all of us who are keeping a close eye on this year’s election. It reminds us that appeals to a traditional mindset centered on security, and the powerful emotions it evokes, can trump even the most persuasive logic. Democrats ignore that lesson…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…ossibility, even hypothetically, that the date could be off. “This isn’t a prediction because a prediction has a potential for failure,” he told me. “Even if it’s 99.9 percent, that extra .1 percent makes it not certain. It’s like the weather. If it’s 60 percent, it may or may not rain. But in this case we’re saying 100 percent it will come. God with a consuming fire is coming to bring judgment and destroy the world.” I encountered this same certa…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…Jewish heritage of my wife of 38 years,” he wrote in an email. Later in a phone interview, he said his wife was not a practicing Jew but “ethnically Jewish” because her maternal grandmother was a Jew. Of course, it is possible to express [insert flavor of bigotry here] even if you have friends, relatives, partners, or a spouse who identify as part of [group that is the target of that bigotry]. It’s a close cousin to the “some of my best friends a…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…into a diversion and a meaningless recreational activity is more than “inappropriate,” as the Holocaust Museum’s communication director Andrew Hollinger claims. If I were to play Candy Crush at the Holocaust museum one could argue that I was simply avoiding, however inappropriately, what is there to be witnessed. But if I change the place itself into a game I have done something else entirely. This is not “escapism” as we think of it because Pokém…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…ast to the New Deal. The idea that faith can dislodge this kind of white supremacy and privilege on an electoral level is nothing more than wishful thinking. These people have faith, but it fuels a politics of resentment that isn’t susceptible to change. Perhaps Democrats will get “lucky” and Republicans will find a way to pass the AHCA despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot. In that case, 17,000 people die in the first year, a…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…ys, many of us wouldn’t even go to work at all or for very long. Once we’d prayed Friday prayers, we could spill out into the streets and encounter more reminders to invoke blessings upon the Prophet. Life was not sliced off into religion and not-religion so very clearly and abruptly. We didn’t have to change in the phone booth, as it were, into the non-religious as we transitioned abruptly from ritual to rat race. It was not so very problematic f…

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…religious liberty,” the former pastor, Arkansas governor, and now two-time presidential candidate said in a statement. Arguing that “the Supreme Court cannot and did not make a law,” but only a “ruling on a law,” Huckabee maintained that “Kim does not have the Constitutional authority to issue a marriage license to homosexual couples.” Davis will be in federal court later this morning, for a hearing on whether she should be held in contempt of cou…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ear in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thing…

Ralph Reed’s Group Goes after “Union Thugs” in Wisconsin

By Sarah Posner

…a full-scale get-out-the-vote phone bank operation to make sure every last pro-freedom and pro-family voter goes to vote on behalf of our values.” So far, the right’s anti-union battleground in Wisconsin hasn’t been explicitly framed as a “pro-family” issue, but here’s Marx: Please join Tony Nasvik and join the fight with 100 plus FFC activists who will be going door-to-door encouraging the Badger State to vote for candidates who share our values…