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Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

…I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” I want to show how relegating the genocide of America’s first peoples to an unfortunate historical side note is foundational to white Christian nationalism. Santorum’s comments represent a widespread understanding of history within the Religious Right. Religious Right leaders, going back to Jerry Falwell’s “I Love America” rallies from…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…ive. But the very pathos that has been induced by slavery, racism, and our American obsession with what constitutes beauty is painful to watch. The unresolved pain, and the lack of attention to the history of why hair has become such an obsession for African American women in particular, is the only drawback to this otherwise insightful and entertaining movie. And FYI: all of the hair on my head is mine. It is not a weave. But please, ask me befor…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…loose and invisible organization, he sets out to unravel the whole knot of American political fundamentalism. Sharlet, who has since become one of the best journalists covering American religion today (and a columnist for Religion Dispatches), got a remarkable scoop some years back. An acquaintance invited him into Ivanwald, the community in Arlington, Virginia, that exposed him to a network of which few outsiders are aware. He calls it “The Famil…

Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

By Sarah Posner

…Movement sees the future here, specifically the changing views of younger American Jews on Israel and Palestine. It may not agree on everything with J Street, but it knows it can’t be excluded from an association that claims to represent the views of all American Jews. UPDATE: J Street is asking supporters to sign a “thank you” note to Malcolm Hoenlein, the president of the Conference, and the Conference itself (“join us in thanking Malcolm Hoenl…

The Super-Blah Billboard From American Atheists

By Alana Massey

…e target. Secondly, of all the bones they could pick with the Super Bowl, American Atheists chose praying fans as their target and presumably spent a considerable amount of their members’ money doing it? I know that their professed purpose is to protect the civil rights of atheists but couldn’t they have some harmless mission drift for the occasion and join forces with an anti-trafficking group or an activist network that calls out the rampant ho…

Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…l perspective” which brought the non-Western religions to the attention of Americans (oddly, he does not mention the changes in American culture brought on by the immigration act of 1965), the growing wealth of Americans, and the waning of the East Coast WASP establishment. These factors, he claims, led to a weakening of Christian orthodoxy and its hold over the American spirit. The traditional churches responded by either capitulating to cultural…

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…traced all the way back to slavery. Even today the only place the African-American community who are adults can meet if they want to have a meeting in a predominantly African-American community is a church. Our Civil Rights history was born in the Baptist church, but our enslavement was also born in the Baptist church. Pastor Pickens has been given until March 4th to respond to the church tribunal. Letters of support can be sent to his attentio…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…f God, blow ’em up!). Hasn’t it always been this way? Pick any decade from American history and you can find political leaders encouraging hate—both to protect American values and interests and to strengthen the civil religious ties that are supposed to bind us all together. Hate the English, hate the French, hate the Spanish, hate the Japanese, hate the Germans, hate the Koreans, hate the Vietnamese, hate the Russians, hate the Iraqis, and so on…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…omeland was overwhelming. As would sometimes be forgotten, it was not just American Jews who where stirred by the prospect of a new nation for the Jewish people, it was most of America.’’ In 1948 President Truman, in keeping with American public opinion, granted Israel diplomatic recognition despite the protestations of many senior officials in the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State George Marshall among them. Though historians are divided…

The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…om being lachrymose to dissident.” Could it be that the African American community in larger numbers than ever before finally wants to talk? Are the members of our community and the American public willing to hear from African American LGBTQI persons or must we sit back and listen as other folk attempt to speak for us?…