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Satanic Temple Protests Pseudoscientific Therapies for Satanic Abuse and Witchcraft

By Joseph Laycock

…ight under his mother’s nose. In 2010 Jordan gave her son a lethal dose of Xanax and Ambien in order to spare him from further torture. She was convicted of manslaughter last year. The Grey Faction blames Ellen Lacter, a psychologist affiliated with the ISSTD and S.M.A.R.T., who they claim encouraged Jordan’s paranoia. Greaves reports that Lacter headed a special ISSTD group on ritual abuse and mind control. Documents written by Lacter in 2007 des…

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…absorbed in something useless, I ought to be able to change it. I have to exercise agency today in order to exercise it tomorrow.” Action and reflection are mutually reinforcing. More than simple willpower, Buddhism offers up a framework and set of contemplative practices that work alongside behavioral modification. As you resist the impulse to refresh email, you becomes more aware of the impermanent yet recurring nature of that impulse. In turn,…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…have a very different relationship with? Farmed animals are an even more extreme example. We, as a nation, have basically said that anything human beings want to do to farmed animals is acceptable. We do have anti-cruelty laws, which people will invoke with the honest hope that these protect farmed animals, but virtually every state has “common farming exemptions.” [According to this] legal principle, if something is a common farming practice, it…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

…is why my view of concept formation looks on our attempted definitions as exploratory, experimental. Here’s how it works. We find ourselves in a world where words name things that “stand out” in reality, or which name what we “cut out” from reality. There’s lots of argument about what belongs in either category. But, take it that people think about religion either as “standing out” or as needing to be “cut out.” I am suggesting that we might bridg…

The Bindi Isn’t Indie

By Yesenia Vargas

…to don a bindi, or Coldplay the first English artists to use India as an exotic backdrop, the backlash from the Indian community was fierce. *** Breanna grew up in an atheist household in San Francisco, but lately she’s been searching for something more. “I’m in a physics program right now, and the more advanced you get in this stuff, the more you have to just shrug and admit you don’t know. So I started casting out for something to follow, somet…

Another Guardian of Catholic Orthodoxy Accused of Protecting Sexual Abusers

By Patricia Miller

…hing from birth control to women priests to marriage, that has been overseen for the past 35 years by a succession of men whose vigorous defense of doctrinal orthodoxy may be directly proportionate to their need to deny the reality of sexual deviance within the church?…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bby groups, have demanded a change to European law to state that marriage exists only between men and women – a “family” should be defined strictly as a heterosexual married couple and their descendants, they argue. They hope to use a scheme backed by Mr Juncker and established in 2012 that obliges the EU to consider proposed new laws if they get the backing of one million citizens. EU officials denied that Juncker wants to water down the initiati…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lation that would reportedly grant full civil partnership rights to same-sex couples is expected to be introduced in parliament. The explanatory note accompanying the legislation notes that the European Court of Human Rights had criticized Greece for bring one of the last countries in Europe without official recognition for same-sex couples. More on reaction by Ambrosios from Philip Chrysopoulos at Greek Reporter: The Holy Synod decided to adhere…

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…ical belief from socio-political forms of identity, we miss the connection between the two. Otherwise put, adopting the NAE’s research definition limits the extent to which particular beliefs might be related to certain sociological markers and political positions. Case in point: Hawkins. Hawkins’ wearing of the hijab as an act of solidarity with Muslims (a material, political act) is not distinct from her claim that Christians and Muslims believe…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…verything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection between environmental degradation and human degradation; eliminating poverty is environmental policy. No one is arguing any longer that there is not a moral problem at stake. But that is far as simple theology will get you. It will place love at the center—the rest is not commentary. COP21 may a…