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Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…g pornography. It will be interesting to see in the future whether Millennial porn approval rates change as this cohort gets older. In one of the few studies investigating porn use by women and men, German researchers found that Millennial women were active and interested porn consumers. These women used porn to stimulate their own sexual desire and did not express disinterest or disgust. The Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI) finds that on…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…our behalf as to go there yourself? Is God “closer” if you visit the physical wall than if you simply view a digital image of it? A replica of the Wailing Wall has recently been constructed in Second Life, the popular user-built online virtual “world.” The creator of the virtual Wailing Wall, “Xanadu,” explains that the digital wall, “is a peaceful spot to sit and grieve, pray, meditate, or comfort a friend. The wall accepts self-created notecards…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…thing, but I think our problem in Elevatorgate was that we weren’t being analytical enough. For starters, instead of arguing about rights, we could have taken a utilitarian approach, in which the focus is on maximizing overall utility, or well-being. That would have allowed us to hash out some important empirical questions: What percentage of women would feel uncomfortable in a situation like Watson’s? What percentage of women would actually enjoy…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…have happened? What systems have been built to allow a man with a prior criminal record—a record of threats of family violence, no less—to purchase or own a weapon that can kill so many people so quickly? What systems have been built to allow years of stochastic terrorism to proliferate throughout the internet? And what systems have been built to support mainstream media’s coverage of that terrorism as if the controversy were the news, and not the…

How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy

By David Webster

…e more often than not logically incompatible. There seemed to be an illogical almost anti-rational and extreme open-mindedness. No claim, no matter how preposterous or unfeasible, seemed to be unacceptable—and to question the claims was seen as either spiritually naïve or as being locked into some kind of pro-conflict, old-religion mindset of harsh exclusivism. For me, when looking at particular new-age material this ‘everyone is right, all paths…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…n creates more volatility and greater risk. What was developed in order to minimize risk has exacerbated it. When you were writing, what hopes did you have for the book? What hopes can you have for a book? How has its reception lived up to that? It’s still early. I don’t know where the book is traveling right now. Over the years I’ve written in so many different areas. Hegel says that the owl of Minerva only takes flight at twilight. You can only…

The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…ngs to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me. “In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed. When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me.”…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…n contact.” Stories of disease are also frequently stories of the divine. Wald reminds us that in works like The Iliad and Oedipus Rex, “plagues are the language of the gods’ displeasure.” There, transgressions of the divine unleash deadly contagion, a mytheme that would be grafted onto the scientific storyscape in the twentieth century. Our contemporary version of this narrative element is the sense that we have brought these viruses upon ourselv…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…es are high (or hyped, depending on your perspective), but the controversy also reflects the continuing failure of mainline religions to grasp a dramatic cultural change in what constitutes religious or spiritual “practice.” From Religion to “Something Else” Two major studies released in the past two years—the Pew Religious Landscape Survey and the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS)—and several follow-up reports have tracked a rapid i…

Hacking the Vatican

By Joseph Laycock

…Indeed, Anonymous Italy’s statement frames their opponent as not only global but eternal, citing a millennia’s worth of grievances. In the case of Scientology, hackers are drawn to its esoteric teachings and the opportunity to expose them. The internet has allowed opponents of Scientology to disseminate documents normally made available only to the most initiated members of the Church. Like taking on a global church, revealing secrets seems to in…