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Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…trality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more diff…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…int here is not to engage these claims, in large part because we all know that little of what we say is likely to convince anybody of anything they don’t already believe. For professional public intellectuals like Gordis, this is a way to stay in the news. For academics such as myself, it is a way to feel relevant when most days we teach a small cadre of wonderful undergraduate and graduate students and toil away at scholarship that few people wil…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…ditions change over time. However, to tell people of a different religion that they don’t know what their religious rituals actually mean is ipso facto not a historical argument but a sectarian one. The claim that Christians unknowingly practice a Pagan mystery religion has a long history combining sectarian claims with goofy pseudo-scholarship. It was Protestant Reformers, in fact, who first accused their Catholic rivals of adulterating Christian…

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…ut who in the twenty-first century thinks Catholics “breed like rabbits”? That’s an offensive stereotype of Catholics that went out of date in the 1950s, when most Catholic women got on board with contraception—which the Catholic Church bans. And he made his comments after saying Catholics shouldn’t use birth control and while criticizing a woman who was pregnant for the eighth time and facing a cesarean section: “Does she want to leave the seven…

Why Is Obama Reaching Out to Ravening Wolves?

By Peter Laarman

…ed foundation has been running these full-pagers everywhere, at God knows what cost, to scare the bejeezus out of us and make us think that unless we slash Social Security and Medicare now, our children and grandchildren will be reduced to foraging nuts and berries in a deficit-cratered landscape. As far as I can tell, Obama is accommodating the scaremongers today mainly because they have the inside muscle to force him to their table. He needs to…

Dear President Bush

By Jimmy McCarty

…In fact, she mentioned me by name in that address. I wasn’t the only one that received a degree that day because she was awarded an honorary doctorate. She seemed like a sweet and loving lady. Anyways, it’s not some bastion of liberal propaganda to say the least. But it was there my faith and the course of my life changed. My degree was in religion, but it was really a Bible and ministry degree. I learned about the Kingdom of God, the Anabaptists…

Gingrich on “Teh Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…which means a person may be born with a “propensity” to be gay, but, hey, that doesn’t mean they have to be that way. They have a choice, after all. People choose many things in life. You know, there is a bias in favor of non-celibacy. It’s part of how the species re-creates. And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons. Gingrich is blowing all the right notes on the religious rig…

How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…tion” even though they forgot to mention that concept in the one document that outlines the code by which this nation would be governed. In the article, Dunbar outlines a proposed legal strategy to defend linking the two documents: Dunbar began the lecture by discussing a national day of thanksgiving that Gen. George Washington called for after the defeat of the British at Saratoga in 1777—showing, in her reckoning, a religious base in the thinkin…

What This All-Star Christian Movie Gets Wrong About Christianity

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…person in others’ eyes. I might actually be persecuted for my beliefs and that that is the most important instance of discrimination ever; on the other hand, perhaps I just enjoy thinking that I am. Maybe I find it gratifying. And here’s the kicker: I am probably not in the best position to tell the difference. This isn’t some newfangled liberal fancy, either: since antiquity, Christian thinkers have dwelled on the human propensity to deceive ones…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nnection. That is our malady. We must break away, and be isolate. We call that being free, being individual. Beyond a certain point, which we have reached, it is suicide. Perhaps we have chosen suicide. Well and good. The Apocalypse too chose suicide, with subsequent self-glorification… my individualism is really an illusion. I am a part of the great whole, and I can never escape. But I can deny my connections, break them, and become a fragment. T…