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Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…arthquakes really do not selectively hit cities of vice, such as, say, Las Vegas. They just hit the cities that are placed on tectonic faultlines. Or rain patterns, which really do not show any correlation with levels of godliness or godlessness. Even if people believe that this or that disaster has happened because of this or that sin, this subjective idea cannot be the base of objective laws that will be imposed on us. Shall we impose vegetarian…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…s a story in tuesday’s NY Times, based on a Tweet from a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun, reporting that the Gingrich campaign, fresh from a South Carolina victory aided by a $5 million contribution from Sheldon Adelson—billionaire supporter of the Israeli Right and publisher of the hawkish Israeli tabloid Yisrael Shelanu (Our Israel)—was just given another $5 million by Dr. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson’s wife. As the Times noted “Dr. Adelson…

Marco Rubio: Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…S Church to this day. Rubio’s family encountered Mormonism after moving to Las Vegas, a town with deep Mormon roots and a significant LDS population, in the 1970s. While his father worked as a casino bartender, young Marco attended church (walking to the chapel when he couldn’t get a ride), memorized Osmonds tunes, and tagged along with his cousins on family vacations to Provo, Utah, where they toured Osmond studios. His was a happy Mormon childho…

How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy

By David Webster

…. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson). After my desire to have a strong opening sentence, I’d love to have this one: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” Also, having written this, I suspect, would have meant that I’d have got to have had that much fun—and get away with it. What’s your next book? That is just what I’m tryi…

Chris Christie Apologizes. . . For Saying Something True

By Sarah Posner

…at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting this weekend in — where else? — Las Vegas. None of the speakers, including Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, or embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, is Jewish. But some made efforts to boast (awkwardly, the Times notes) their loyalty to the Jews. In Christie’s case, this effort quickly turned sour, at least in Republican “pro-Israel” eyes. Like any non-Jewish politicia…

Did the “Science Guy” Bill Nye Single-Handedly Revive Noah’s Ark Theme Park?

By Mike Greer

…s status by presenting a recap of the debate at a glitzy conference in Las Vegas. What did Ken Ham get out of the deal? Ham has admitted that the high-profile evolution debate he had with Nye in February revived his floundering Ark project. Aside from the undisclosed financial returns from the debate itself Ham has gathered in $60+ million from wealthy donors who were motivated by the spectacle to invest in the Ark Encounter project in northern Ke…

Raelian Swastika Campaign Calculated to Stoke Controversy

By Joseph Laycock

…mbol from its Nazi associations which also featured street activism in Las Vegas. Press coverage indicates that those who saw the plane felt outraged rather than informed. A teenager who spotted the sign described it as “horrific,” while City Councilman Mark Treyger called the sign “a chilling message of fear and intimidation.” The Raelians almost certainly counted on this emotional response. In her book on the Raelians, Susan J. Palmer suggests t…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…stitutions. So people who advocate these types of ideas might say that the Las Vegas strip or the Democratic Party or their local school board has been taken over by evil spirits. I can’t emphasize enough how rapidly the idea of Spiritual Warfare is growing. Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White Cain, was mocked for asking for termination of ‘all Satanic pregnancies’ in the 2020 election. People thought she was mad. No, she was speaking to a huge…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…urrection Faith Community Ministries, a gay-friendly black church in North Las Vegas. Though the congregation is independent, it’s affiliated with UCC minister Bishop Yvette Flunder’s The Fellowship, a network of “radically inclusive” African-American churches. This is an admittedly minor connection, but it’s interesting to see a) an out leader of a welcoming minority church speaking to a national convention, and b) how denominations like the Disc…

Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right

By Brad Stoddard

…15-style firearms, including the shooters who killed 58 people in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, who killed 26 people in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and who killed 26 people in the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Church in Texas. AR-15s aren’t just popular rifles for people who commit mass shootings, however. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that AR-15-style rifles account for one out of every five firearm sale…