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Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…dling fear of Islam were exposed last month by the Tennessean’s religion reporter Bob Smietana. “Ninety-nine point nine percent of honest reporters toss it into the garbage can,” said Khan. “They know a smear when they see it.” He added, “I know the cast of characters and their highly dubious reputations and complete lack of expertise when it comes to Islam, Muslims, and national security.” “What I would assert is really at play here is good old f…

Religion and Science: Busting Assumptions

By Annie Hardison-Moody

…g these scholars and teachers, there are many who are seeking out a more dialogical approach, as well as a more critical view of the kind of assumptions that fuel the science/religion opposition. Is it reasonable to believe, as Stephen Hawking seems to, that religion is always on the side of the irrational? Or that scientists are not frequently aware of the fluidity of the assumptions that undergird their work, or of the philosophical and historic…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ly taking place in our city about the ordinance. I saw an article from the Miami Herald that helped jump start the process, and soon thereafter I came across a sermon preached by Bob Jones on Easter Sunday in 1960, in which he (as I understand it) was partly responding to Billy Graham’s move toward advocating for social reforms in the South. I did a bunch of Google searches related to strings like “sermons on segregation” or “sermons supporting ra…

Rubio Is Confused About Christianity, Marriage Equality, and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader, under an Ohio statute that criminalized “crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform” for a speech in which he said, “if our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it’s possible that there might have to be some revengeance taken.” The Ohio law, the Court held, violated Branden…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…Soon enough the novel’s main characters, years after 11/9, chasing down criminals and corruption in Baghdad, stumble on something bigger. Captured American terrorists hint that this isn’t the real world; in the real world the Arabs are fragmented, divided, and altogether backwards, while America runs the planet. More uncomfortably, these folks bring evidence from that world, which suggests they may not be making this up. So: Is it dangerous delusi…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…nd polycyclic hydrocarbons. Temples and the people visiting them have several alternatives that can help reduce the risk from incense smoke. In their paper, Ho and his coauthors write that “visitors may decrease the number of incense sticks burned and period of stay at temples.” In my travels, I did visit temples that tried to suggest limits on how many incense sticks people should burn. Some temples have tried to deal with this problem by extingu…

Seen Andrew Sullivan’s Expose-Style Footage of the LDS Temple? Now Read This.

By Joanna Brooks

…d several other dozen Mormons were inducted into Freemasonry. Joseph’s ritual mirrored Masonry partly in form… and in its construction of an initiation rite through elaboration of Biblical story and drama. Most of all the endowment used ritual to bind people together through oath and covenant. Freemasonry offered the same sense of an ordered world that Joseph was seeking to find in his faith; it is little surprise that he would find in the Masonic…

Uganda Shelves Kill the Gays Bill—For Now

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…g up the harassment and threats against LGBT people in Uganda, as the AP reminds us: Last year a tabloid newspaper in Uganda [Rolling Stone] published the names and photos of men it alleged were gay. One cover included the words “Hang Them.” Shortly afterward, a prominent gay rights activist whose picture was published was bludgeoned to death, though authorities contend David Kato’s sexual orientation had nothing to do with the killing. Life has n…

Mormons and Idiosyncrasy

By Martin E. Marty

…hlin Group TV show. I quote: “Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, ‘I respect this religion fully.’…He’s got to answer.” The other religion that gets treated that way, with such impunity, is Islam. O’Donnell himself was not treated with impunity; he was knuckle-rapped with a feather-duster suspension. That could change by the time you read this…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…(represented by Chávez) is anti-American, anti-capitalism and, because of calendrical happenstance, anti-Christ. To some conservative Christians, Google’s iconography is the latest in an ongoing attack on their faith. In a post on Townhall.com titled “Ponder Christian Soldiers Google’s Smirking War On You,” Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell decries the choice of a Chávez “doodle”: “Sure, no Christian was mocked, defamed, arrested, or persecute…