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Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…hical dilemma. If you take it as a given that the mind can shape reality, what are the implications of that?” And further, “I don’t think New Thought has ever properly come to terms with the ethical implications of what it is promulgating.” Horowitz argued that the thought of Neville—and others—did often make space for ethical traditions. He also said that there were some ongoing tensions here: New Thought is divided today between people who want…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…inaugural in January?” Last week, the Family Research Council announced “that that the European Court of Human Rights has granted permission for the organization to defend Ireland’s ban on the practice of abortion.” The organization will be represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and organizations. In a press release, Bill Saunders, FRC’s Human Rights Counsel and Senior Fellow of the Center for Human Life…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…h that calls you abnormal, crazy, “intrinsically disordered,” and asserts that God hates you enough for who you are to send you to an eternal hell creates these kinds of behaviors. At our core, human beings want to fit in. We want to be loved and accepted and when we aren’t, when we’re made to feel like scum and ashamed of who we are, we turn to things that make us feel better—drugs and alcohol perhaps. Being rejected by family, church and society…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…office. I asked if she had actually read the Constitution and she insists that she has, and then asserted that “Obama and his cronies are trying to change everything in it. Including any part about GOD & Country. He is not a Christian. He stated more than once that he was a Muslim.” Christine O’Donnell, as Candace so aptly pointed out, was playing on the Christian right canard that since the precise words “separation of church and state” are not i…

Sarah Palin Favorites “Jesus Against Obama” Church Sign

By Lauri Lebo

…f, saying, “This is my new church.” Her favorite was to a link to a church sign that said, “Blood of Jesus Against Obama/History made 4 Nov 2008, a Taliban Muslim illegally elected president USA Hussein” The sign is outside the church of Pastor James David Manning, who once held a trial declaring Obama ineligible to be president because he says he wasn’t born in the US and who refers to him as a “pimp” and “long-legged mack daddy” in sermons. Befo…

You Are Not Your Star Sign

By Spencer Dew

…Allstate Insurance containing tabulated data on insurance reports and star signs, proving that Scorpios were the safest drivers, Virgos the worst. In second-best spot were the Ophiuchuses of the world, those being folks born in the thirteenth month, under the thirteenth sign, a guy with a big snake in his arms. Ophiuchus has long been part of sidereal astrology (dominant in India, among other places), but absent from the traditionally twelve-signe…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…nd wonder what they meant. We were too naïve and too sheltered to realize that what was described was to be feared, not indulged; apocalyptic movies are entertainment, the apocalypse is not. We wondered, even doubted: Can this all really happen? Will this happen? What do end-times prophecies say about free will and determinism? If God has to send Jesus to help us, does that mean He only infrequently intervenes in history? What then is the product…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es and – without caring about it – harm society. That doesn’t mean to say that I hate them. I mean, I hate what they do.” A DUP councillor claimed in 2005 that Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,500 people in the US, was God exacting revenge on the city of New Orleans for hosting a gay rights event. DUP leader Arlene Foster has previously rejected claims that her party is homophobic and said critics do not understand her party’s motivatio…

Take It Off, Or We’ll Make You: On Sarkozy’s Proposed Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…. Halloween masks should be similarly avoided by Muslims. Select costumes that use make-up rather than masks. Select costumes that do not use any forms of head-covering (e.g. wigs, scarves, nun’s habit, pirate hat). Dressing up as, say, Whoopi Goldberg may be impermissible because it necessitates dreadlocks. Dressing up as, say, Queen Elizabeth also involves head-wear, and should be avoided. The Muslim-Catholic comparison has already become a sore…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…t the left, and President Obama in particular, are part of a fifth column that promote, or at the very least, enable it. (Both McCarthy and Woolsey are also affiliated with the FDOD.) Gaffney’s efforts have proven to be quite lucrative for him, despite the fact that he leads a nonprofit organization. According to the Center for Security Policy’s 2008 tax return, Gaffney earned a salary of $288,300. And Gaffney is not alone. In the midst of the upr…