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The Heresy of End Times Predictions

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…” or the “Whore of Babylon,” are intended to mean. Sure, they may refer to Iraq and Iran, but they may just as easily refer to Pascagoula and New Orleans. Natural and human disasters abound, always. So there is a necessary, if mostly unstated, art of reading that lies at the heart of these artful and apocalyptic musings upon certain select scriptures. How then to read them well? These texts are believed to be encrypted texts, as it were; texts tha…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…ith good and righteous people. Following the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, it was decided that we should be reaching out to area congregations to ask if we could provide them with guest speakers who would then tell the members of those congregations just how wrong and pointless the war and occupation was. There were few takers. Meanwhile, but on a separate track, this same group was establishing relationships with returning soldiers and mili…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…vil War, with people on both sides reading it. And in World War II and the Iraq War as well. They read it, as you say, as predicting this means this, or the beast is this. But prophesy, as we know, is a highly interpretative art, and the way this book lives and has lived for two thousand years is by interpretation and reinterpretation. The way this book has lived has to do with the openness of these vivid symbols for John of Patmos—like the headed…

Shari’ah ≠ Islamic Law: Misunderstanding the Role of Islam in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…and ask why we weren’t as concerned about the Islamic nature of the “new” Iraq and Afghanistan. Omar Ashour speculates on the reason for the mention of Shari’ah, positing that firm references to the role of Islam might have something to do with appeasing the Islamist elements of Libya’s popular revolution. To begin, a brief primer. Shari’ah is not quite Islamic law. It is, rather, “the path to the water,” the sum total of God’s revelation to huma…

The Political Strategist’s Conversion that Led to Ron Paul’s New Faithiness

By Sarah Posner

…er investigation by the Senate Finance Committee. Paul’s opposition to the Iraq War got his attention, said Wead, who says he knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and that “we were conned.” Wead, who was instrumental in intertwining religious conservatives in presidential politics, now says he’s undergone a conversion: he thinks evangelicals have been led astray by the culture war focus on establishing a “Christian nation.” He poin…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…s revealed. Submissions had been anonymous up to that point, discussed and promoted by a jury selected to represent (some parts of) New York City. The excitement turns to tension, then to panic. The selected design has been produced by a Muslim, an American Muslim architect of some renown named Mohammed Khan, and the committee is flabbergasted. How can they present a design proposed by a Muslim to officially remember 9/11? But on what basis can’t…

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…he presciently sent a cardinal to tell George W. Bush that an invasion of Iraq would be a “defeat for humanity.” With the release of this document, the right wingers are now running for cover, claiming it is not official. “The pope didn’t say it,” just some little old Vatican group off on a left-wing bender—as if one word of this document (which is pregnant with papal quotations) could slip out of the Vatican by night without the pope’s full bles…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…o foreground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desen…

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…ss the aisle. With Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, he sponsored nuclear freeze legislation, opposed Reagan’s invasion of Grenada, and was one of only two Republicans to vote against the 1990 invasion of Iraq. Confounding political allies and opponents alike, he also remained an outspoken opponent of abortion and the death penalty. For these and other positions, Hatfield came under relentless attack by the Republican leadership. After he cast th…

Can Romney Win by Embracing his Mormon Masculinity?

By Joanna Brooks

…their money where their mouths are. That’s right, everyone: freedom isn’t free. We’re all paying the tax bills for the Republican-declared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last night, it was the two LDS candidates on stage who managed to appear the most reasonable. That’s a fascinating new public image for Mormon conservatism in the post-Glenn-Beck era. And it appears that Romney outlasted the more showy and muscular Perry by embracing his Mormon ma…