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70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message

By Chrissy Stroop

…mes to describe the NPB as “an international influence peddling bazaar.” Many commentators—including foremost expert on the Family, Jeff Sharlet himself—have noted that the changes to the event appear “largely cosmetic.” For some reason, President Joe Biden apparently thought it would be appropriate to make light of the controversies that forced the recent changes, addressing the guests gathered at the Hilton with, “Welcome to all 1,300. And the H…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

…te attempt to put some distance between the GOP and the religious right. Many religious conservatives opposed his candidacy, largely because of his association with the centrist Republican Leadership Council, a group he co-founded with Christine Todd Whitman and John Danforth, both vocal critics of fundamentalism. Colleen Parro of the Republican National Coalition for Life told Lifenews.com that “Michael Steele has been keeping company with those…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…Vedic scripture at Los Alamos: “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” Many Americans actually felt pretty good about the nuclear bomb for a little bit, though that changed once those damned Russkies got a bomb of their own. Partly to allay growing fears of annihilation, President Eisenhower in 1953 began heavily promoting the “Atoms for Peace” concept through which the lethal nuclear fission process might be seen as but another mainstay of Amer…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…is unethical, I wonder how he imagines those clothes in China are made so cheaply, and whether an industrial factory qualifies as a gauntlet. If Rhinehart washed his clothes himself, however, he would need a washing machine, which takes energy, and he couldn’t say he lived on a battery anymore. A commenter on Rhinehart’s post aptly called this brand of asceticism “consumption laundering”; because Rinehart doesn’t do the consumption himself, it do…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…h abuses and not abused depending on whose argument we’re listening to at any given moment. In this regard, the movie contains some misleading additions to the play: things that Sister James describes after the fact in the stage play are presented in the moment in the film, leading the audience to think of them as evidence. But we shouldn’t have any evidence; our judgment, insofar as it’s possible to have one, needs to rest entirely on the ex post…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…r the children of atheist lesbian couples are simply not welcome here. The cheap paperback Easter stories read by Sanders and Conway—no doubt ordered the day before from Amazon Prime—had nothing to do with teaching, or welcoming, or even celebrating a Christian holiday (inappropriate as that itself would have been at a White House event). As this administration did with its craven and phony defense of “Merry Christmas” as if it were an endangered…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…utlandish elaboration on the Biblical tale. As I’ve described elsewhere, many of its additions—the fallen angels called the Watchers, for example—have precedent in Christian and Jewish legend. Many others are just made up. But these embellishments of the Biblical story seem secondary to a different conception of what a Biblical story should be in the first place. Is the point of myth to provide a relatable character, full of human flaws, to whom w…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…Christian values. This portion of conservative Christians – exactly how many remains vague in media coverage – apparently views the crimson cups as evidence of secular humanistic creep, and the replacement of Christianity with a pluralistic perspective that these individuals view as an affront to their religious liberties. Joshua Feuerstein, the activist (and known oddball) whose Facebook post attacking the chain over the issue is what initially…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…hing. Especially the part about me being an Iranian. Oh, and by the way, many American Muslims are social conservatives. Well over half of us voted for Bush in 2000. If your leadership had any long-term strategy, it would realize the best rebuttal to an argument that you are just trying to dial us back to the Jim Crow south—wait, did someone cheer?—would be to break apart a growing alliance between the left and minority communities of color by usi…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…ors. I would like to be surprised. Visit our RDBook page for a complete list of our interviews with authors… Comments? We enthusiastically welcome any response to this interview, or to any of our features. Write to us!…