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God is a Terrifying Monster, and Other Takeaways from the Study of Vampires in Pop Culture

By Jess Peacock

…ts as a powerful representation of death, redemption, and the struggle for freedom against oppressive forces. And while most of the blatant religious themes within the traditional vampire narrative have diminished, I am confident that at some point in the future they will cycle back. As a matter of fact, I think we’re already seeing this as the recent films Dracula Untold and What We Do in the Shadows each reached back into western vampire lore an…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…g religious extremism, Obama noted that that Islamic State’s “slaughter of Egyptian Christians in Libya has shocked the world.” Notice, in Walker’s speech, the juxtaposition of the statement that Obama “seems to scoff at the belief that our country has been uniquely blessed by God” (i.e., he’s not a Christian) with his own remembrance of the murdered Egyptian Christians “who clearly died for their faith and their beliefs.” Some of the floor statem…

Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

…ich was improbably filled with ninjas); Indiana Jones bopped from Nepal to Egypt in search of an ancient “Jewish” artifact. And the list goes on. A Journey to No-Place Don DeLillo’s latest novel, Zero K—a book that is being hailed as an unflinching meditation on death and technology—would seem an unlikely vehicle for Orientalist fantasy. Yet Zero K pursues transcendence in the same manner as a comic-book blockbuster: by cavorting around an Eastern…

Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger. Ancient China, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and other cultures independently made the forearm a standard of measure. And why not? It’s convenient and ubiquitous. When you lift a hammer, it’s already sitting at the end of a cubit. We chose this humble unit for two reasons. First, the cubit is an intersection; it’s where the human body meets the material world. In the Bible, it’s where divine l…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…Christian suffering and murder was highlighted. Persons from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and China—all areas where Christians are persecuted—were represented. During the second station of the Via Crucis, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister for minorities, martyred in 2011 by a group of armed men, was remembered, and later, the injustice of the death penalty around the world. I must admit, I have always liked Holy Week. It is a moment to reflec…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…acks on black churches are a tried and true tactic of the enemies of black freedom. This violent strategy is based on the belief that our churches support black resistance against state violence. Even the most hardened young black activists mourned the bloodshed in a holy space that serves to help and hold an often-broken people. As an ordained clergyperson nurtured in the bosom of the black church, I am all too familiar with the way in which we t…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…y failed before (and in recent memory), and that we do not allow others to freeload on this national and international security priority, by bringing their agendas along for the ride, and in the process distracting us from the task at hand. The war in Afghanistan was about al-Qaeda. The war in Iraq was not. The former effort suffered because the latter proceeded. The French rejected the Iraq war, and have been attacked by an ISIL that emerged in g…

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…elf-identifies as “the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt,” so much so that Walter Brueggemann argues that it’s practically a synecdoche. This God isn’t jealous simply for the sake of jealousy, though. He’s jealous because he wants the Israelites to remember who liberated them from slavery, and it wasn’t that dumb (as in dumb) golden calf. There’s only one God responsible for liberation, and that’s God, not a statue of Donal…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…to this same resident, the church made pro-repeal yard signs available for free. And Emily Bowen-Marler, a Springfield pastor who supported the ordinance (and who, in full disclosure, is a friend), told me that the pro-repeal electioneers she encountered at polling places were from churches 45 minutes away. Of Bathrooms, Boundaries, and ‘Burbs Let’s tally this up. Accusations of duplicity and secrecy? Check. A sense that conservatives’ moral convi…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…orth Africa, and the oldest continuously operating university in the world today, al-Azhar (sorry, Sen. Graham), is in Cairo, Egypt. This history may be the reason on graduation day you look like an enemy combatant. Much of the modern university, including the stages by which one attains to a doctorate, descend from Islamic antecedents and maintain Islamic influences. “The Star Wars Prequels” by Garrett Schwalber 11. The Star Wars Prequels Tattooi…