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Blessed Be the Warmakers

By Svend White

…g the globe. Nor has the UN in recent memory imposed its own leader on the United States over the popular will, as did the United States itself when it essentially overruled the world by ousting Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali over petty political grudges in 1997. If we must resort to conspiracy theories, let’s at least follow the money trail and look at who really wields power today. If a Satanic New World Order is indeed under way, surel…

The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them

By R.L. Stollar

…man history. But Faust and Manning bury in the footnotes the fact that the United States is the only member of the United Nations that has not ratified the Convention, which is due to lobbying by evangelicals led by homeschool leader Michael Farris (the godfather of the parental rights movement). Evangelicals incorrectly believe the Convention is a threat to parental rights, even though it explicitly affirms parental rights, declaring family is “t…

Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…he pages of the Qur’an and command Osama bin Laden to wage war against the United States. No, the United States has worked for generations to control the Middle East, supporting the Shah, backing the Mujahideen, arming Saddam Hussein against Iran, and stationing thousands of soldiers in Saudi Arabia. This, as Obama well knows, is the primary (though certainly not the only) reason Al Qaeda has targeted the United States. The religious diatribes of…

God, My Wife, And The Government: Defining Marriage

By Krista Kapralos

…is gaining steam, from both sides. Barry Lynn, a minister ordained by the United Church of Christ, bristles whenever he applies for recertification to perform wedding ceremonies. “It offends me,” he said. “It’s not the state’s business to make me an officer in my ministerial capacity.” Lynn is also director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, an organization that has fought to remove monuments of the Ten Commandments from…

Beyond Progressive Religion

By Ivan Petrella

…atheism as the alternatives to fundamentalism. Neither does justice to the United States’ status as the world’s most influential nation. Instead, being progressive about religion should mean taking the logic of religious diversity to its ultimate conclusion and fostering the conditions to create multi-religious individuals. What’s involved? The United States is currently a multi-religious nation, and a nation that individuals of a variety of relig…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…World. Abolition was enacted as an economic policy in England, but in the United States it came at the tremendous, Bible-inspired cost of more than one million dead. While Bragg is deeply interested in the ethical and political impact of Protestantism and the KJV, he clearly has a special fondness for the cultural implications of these things, literary ones especially. The KJV has left its imprint on the history of English literature on both side…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d a form of religious politics that will make biblical code the law of the United States. These activists are quite serious about bringing Christian politics into power. Bray said that it is possible, under the right conditions, for a Christian revolution to sweep across the United States and bring in its wake Constitutional changes that would allow for biblical law to be the basis of social legislation. Failing that, Bray envisaged a new federali…

‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

By Emma Cieslik

…White Protestants were sort of anointed to be the national leaders in the United States. And as far as virtue goes, the greatest amount of virtue was on the shoulders of White women through the concept of sexual purity, which was part of Victorian gender ideologies. (And of course, it was an ideal, so it had nothing to do with White women’s actual experiences.) But it presumed that White women were dispassionate, were uninterested in sex, and the…

The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…te, trapped by nature in their own country and at a safe distance from the United States. We’re obsessed and fascinated by them. They are different but still part of our shared human community. Our sense of “us” can safely expand to include them. But the “illegal” kids are migrants whose parents—Trump has described them as “rapists”—threaten U.S. national security and Americans’ personal safety and quality of life. According to Sessions, whereas t…

There Will Be a Nation

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ans understand to mark the beginnings of US global power. In that war, the United States defeated one of the dominant earthly powers to date, taking, in the process, its first colonies, including Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. In other words, this was the first US war of intervention and charts the beginning of the nation’s colonization and rise to global power. Couple this with the late nineteenth-century theo-political belief in Manifes…