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“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

…the merciful God commanded his four favorite angels, who are Gabriel, Michael, Rafael, and Uriel, to bear Jesus into his mother’s house, and there keep watch over him for three days continually, suffering him only to be seen by them that believed in his doctrine. The Gospel of Barnabas’ Jesus, thus, is not the slain and raised Son of God, sacrificed by his divine Father for the sins of humankind, but rather a righteous prophet protected by God whe…

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25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

…of defined numbers, inverting a previous contribution. There is no known relation between algebra and Algiers. 6. America Yeah. Really. Desperate to get past the Muslim-Chinese stranglehold on maritime world trade and the Muslim dominance of the Silk Road, Spain financed every cockamamie plan it could to get straight to the Indies, including the one proposed by Christopher Columbus. Most Europeans were pretty disappointed by America, despite its…

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Why the World Needs Religious Studies

…ity. Exacerbating these is a common suspicion among scholars outside the field that religion in any form should’ve long since been excised from the curriculum. To make matters worse, the field faces critics from within: well-meaning but destabilizing attempts by religion scholars to rethink and reinvent the whole enterprise from the ground up, even to the point of unsettling its foundations. (Timothy Fitzgerald’s The Ideology of Religious Studies…

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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

…ed by militias seemed akin to that posed by guerilla groups in places like El Salvador and Northern Ireland—similarly seeking to undermine the federal government, but smaller in scale and organization. By 2017, however, U.S. militias started to behave less like guerillas and more like pro-state paramilitaries.[33] Despite continued talk of the new world order and “deep state,” many militias made peace with federal power in Trump’s hands,[34] even…

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Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

…itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.” For same sex couples to have legal access just like heterosexual couples is clearly sameness made legal. To deny such equal legal access “is difference made legal.” The final criterion has to do with access to voting. Dr. King writes, “A law is unjust if…

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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

…to the mosques of America. The conspiracy theorists themselves draw parallels between the red scare of the Cold War era and the current shari’ah scare. Former CIA head Woolsey, who served on the same CPAC panel as McCarthy and is also a contributor to the CSP’s “Team B” report, said at CPAC that the goals of radical Islamists are “roughly parallel to communists in the ’50s and ’60s… We’re in a war with terrorists but that’s not the end. We’re at…

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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

…taxes are high are likely already to be hurt by the tax bill; some will surely feel that the elimination of the exclusion for their housing allowance would only add insult to injury. (And some ministers, of course, take advantage of the tax code to exclude many tens of thousands of dollars from taxation.) For congregations that do not provide housing to their clergy, the elimination of subsection 107(2) will have a more indirect, but still conside…

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‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

…arty supports marriage equality, as do The Greens and The Left parties. Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union do not and are reportedly planning a family-themed election campaign. Japan: First same-sex couple approved as foster parents A gay male couple were approved as foster parents by city officials in Osaka, reportedly a first for Japan. From the Japan Times: Traditionally, only married couples or ind…

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Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

…, assault or incest.) As long as the person denying service cites a “sincerely held religious belief,” they are protected from “adverse government action.” As for the lesbian moms who have their sick child turned away by a “pious” doctor? Perhaps they should just follow Trump’s advice for those seeking safe abortions and “go to another state.” Speaking of health care, Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, Georgia Rep. Tom Price,…

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Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

…ma has to do in order to get his son back. I have to wonder whether their relationship was any better while his wife and daughter were still alive, but Willie looks like a pawn that will continue to be used between Sam—who represents the old ways and traditions of Tauron— and Joseph, who has assimilated in the Caprican World. The funeral ritual may have served as a rite of passage, but for Joseph, who finds out that Tamara still exists, the ritual…

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