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Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…re. A year later, the Coens offered us True Grit, a remake of a John Wayne Western. Critics found it light and accessible, positively “un-Coen like,” and the fact that the film was their biggest box office hit (perhaps in part because it featured Hollywood stars Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon) seemed to confirm its flimsy status. But several other critics (notably Stanley Fish and Armond White), perhaps more attuned to religious matters, noticed how…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…a Black Democrat, to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and promoted a politics of malevolent race-blindness as a cornerstone of his campaign, tapping into the growing reactionary movement against a substantive and just multiracial democracy. Likewise, Ramaswamy has repeatedly praised Indian PM Narendra Modi, arguing that U.S. actors should emulate the way in which Modi “talked unapologetically about Indian national identity.” He ha…

God is Not Interested in Religion

By Peter Laarman

…of them on stone tablets as an aide memoire)? What if the teaching of the Western Church about Christ’s dual nature is mainly the product of a remarkable series of contingencies and not some divinely-given eternal truth? The mere fact of the historicity surrounding our doctrines and rituals does not need to bleed them of their authenticity, provided we do not surrender ourselves to undue anxiety. And the same for the way things are changing now a…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…Texas than just a debate about events and dates. It’s about who we are as Westerners—and I mean Western civilization—and how we think of ourselves as individuals and citizens. Because in Texas, that’s about to change big time. And if we all buy their textbooks, it’s going to change for us, too. If anything, this little escapade that started about national textbook sales and has now turned into an epic ideological battle about how the West underst…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…their punching bag, bringing us into the company of those great threats to Western civilization, including gay marriage, Latinos, and a president simultaneously godless and Muslim. I still think back to that day, and wish I’d stood up and said: Those people are not us, and their beliefs are not Islam. But these are the kinds of moments we learn from. It may not be fair to American Muslims that we must prove we are not those who have tortured Islam…

The ‘Common Sense’ Argument Against Marriage Equality

By Kate Blanchard

…n of “marriage culture” and “historical understanding” (mostly provided by Western men) to interpret it for us so as to turn it into common sense. Which brings us to the real issue here: common sense. Anderson wants make a common sense (and ostensibly religion-free) argument for one-man-one-woman marriage. But common sense has always been a matter of definition and redefinition. In some times and places, it is or has been common sense for men to o…

Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

By Caroline Matas

…o stop “bickering over secondary issues” like the ordination of women. “As Western culture grows more dark, more evil, more secular, we have to decide: are we gonna treat each other as allies or adversaries?” Warren said to applause. He got his answer last Tuesday, when the SBC affirmed the findings of the Credentials Committee that Saddleback was, indeed, “not in friendly cooperation” with the core values of the convention. One of 18 flanks of th…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…e ground for the battle over religion versus science. (In a 2006 survey of Western nations, Turkey was the only country in which fewer people accepted evolution than in the United States.) According to Ron Numbers’ The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, in the wake of the publishing of Origin, Christians in America were, for the most part, able to make peace with Darwin’s theory and evolutionary principles. It wasn’t…

Bristol Palin’s New Book Reveals Heterosexual Agenda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…their lives of depravity, and encourage unhealthy practices that will spread disease and advocate for abusive relationships. It’s not gays and lesbians who are out to destroy Western civilization, marriage, or even religion. Bristol Palin reveals that this has been the heterosexual agenda all along….

Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination

By Aaron Ricker

…iracy-theory thinking is in fact, I suggest, a traditional hallmark of the Western apocalyptic worldview itself, including especially the kind of paranoid imagination that drives—and is driven by—the biblical book of Revelation. Crisis Apocalyptic literature has often been called “a literature of crisis,” because the work of “revelation” (apocalypsis) offered in the text of an Apocalypse like the book of Revelation commonly includes a vision of th…