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None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ly mean ‘none’ by that.” If Nones don’t want to be labeled beyond their “none-ness,” you wouldn’t guess it through reporting on either the earlier Pew study or a more recent review by Pew researchers of surveys, census records, and population studies aimed at marking out the “Global Religious Landscape.” Both studies showed substantial populations of the religiously unaffiliated—one in five in the United States, one in six globally. The “Rise of t…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…ve us and them, and when Jesus comes along and insists that you love your enemy because God loves enemy… This was very subversive, radical teaching. And I think to this day, the idea that God is on our side and He’s on everybody’s side, and God wants to know everybody… This is hard. For some reason religion likes to think “God’s with us and against them,” and so, it’s been radical from the beginning. [WG]: I don’t want to make the mistake of fixat…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…the turn of the century, have rebelled. We were looking for authentic genuineness and simplicity and we found them in our punk performances. Passion, openness and naivety are superior to hypocrisy, cunning and a contrived decency that conceals crimes. The state’s leaders stand with saintly expressions in church, but their sins are far greater than ours. We’ve put on our political punk concerts because the Russian state system is dominated by rigid…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ughters. One can only assume that NRO folks ran these scenarios and determined none of them were problems worthy of their attention. (Mmkay. Noted.) Unfortunately, Williamson also seems to have misunderstood the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. The Trivers-Willard Hypothesis is an if/then statement. If the variance in male fitness is much higher than the variance in female fitness, then then mothers in good condition should invest in male offspring. I…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cisely what this not-so-benign linguistic analogy suggests. If “religion” (never defined) is like Quechua—and thus rapidly dying out, I take it—then who’s speaking the religious equivalent of imperial Spanish? It would seem to be the scientists themselves, and their language of choice is math. That makes this study no longer benign or funny. It’s an almost sneering and worrisome glimpse into the mentality of a certain kind of secularist science th…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ad prosecuted bloggers for “hurting people’s religious sentiments.” Bob Shine at New Ways Ministry notes that two Catholic officials in Bangladesh condemned the killings: Fr. Albert Thomas Rozario, head of the Archdiocese of Dhaka’s Justice and Peace Commission and a Supreme Court lawyer, told UCA News that justice must be ensured for the two gay men murdered: ‘The church always supports the demands of LGBT people for equal rights and opportunitie…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…there. Opponents of the plans argue that inmates in faith based programs enjoy a number of perks and better facilities than other inmates. But whatever the case, Scott’s plan would turn more of the state’s obligation to run the criminal justice system over to religious organizations. According to the St. Petersburg Times Scott’s proposal is part of a “growing national conservative movement known as Right on Crime, which argues that too many priso…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gering strategy. In the words of Thom Senzee at the Advocate, equality opponents are channeling Anita Bryant with ‘save our children’ messaging. More from Feder: The tactics of the No campaign — which is built around the argument that children will be harmed if same-sex couples are allowed to wed — look disturbingly familiar for American LGBT rights advocates, who are watching the Irish vote carefully. This is exactly the kind of messaging that at…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…be able to recruit enough young Catholics to counterbalance the increasing number of Nones, however, is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the more young Catholics start to embrace marriage equality, safe and legal abortion, access to contraception, and the liberal side on many other issues in the culture wars, the more of those same Catholics will also drift away from a church they perceive as incapable of change. Perhaps they’ll attend mas…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ehavior,” and “rebukes and boycotts all enterprises that are polluting the next generation.” Shanghaiist also notes: While same-sex marriage is not currently recognized in Taiwan, the island is generally seen to be on the forefront of Asia in the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. President-elect Tsai Ing-wen has been on the record as saying she supports marriage equality. In a campaign video released before she le…