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What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…rs protesting the Affordable Care Act under claims of religious freedom. While I agree with Loewentheil’s points, I wish to add that what this protest shows, as do many other broader conservative religious movements, is that it isn’t a question of women’s rights versus religious freedom, as some reporters have framed it, and it isn’t actually an issue of religious freedom at all. Rather, these culture war battles are about trying to impose one’s o…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…in the hopes that if you create enough problems the authority in question will cede way (in other words you block the aisles for a 10 hour flight, or you file lawsuits and cost the government time and money defending the law you tried to convince it not to pass, and then once you get an accommodation you sue to be exempted from that as well). The real difference here is that if you don’t want to deal with ultra-Orthodox men interfering in your tra…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rches on terms like “run” and “hide.” Meanwhile, “found” yields over 1.3 trillion hits; it still seems that to be found is more popular than being lost. Even so, a vast majority of recent top hits for “lost” refer back to the ABC-TV television show. If you don’t follow Lost you’ll probably still know that May 23 is the series finale. You’ll probably also know that the show is full of religious references and implications. What’s the hype? What’s i…

The Religious Implications of Nudity

By Steve A. Wiggins

…ance-enhancing drugs. The sense of freedom and fun (and free food, even if airline food) was exhilarating. The airport has now become a place of horror. Do they have full-body scanners? I wonder as I’m herded into a long, bovine line. Abattoir or boudoir? Why is this bothering me so much? Don’t Touch Me There Even cursory reflection reveals my embodiment issues are buried deep in my religious upbringing. I was a teenage fundamentalist. That remark…

Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist

By Steve A. Wiggins

…the book’s preface: “If god (however you perceive him/her/it) told you to kill your child—would you do it? If your answer is no, in my booklet you’re an atheist.” He later qualifies this a bit, asserting that anyone who can’t answer a solid “Yes” to “Does god exist?” is an atheist. Religious specialists, however, tend to be sticklers for precise definitions. Those who don’t know about the existence of god are agnostics. Toward the end, Jillette ha…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a broader agreement that includes the introduction of a same-sex marriage bill in the Chilean Congress…. The meeting took place less than a month after a bill that would allow same-sex couples in the South American country to enter into civil unions received final approval. Religious opposition persists. More from the Blade’s Michael Lavers: Javier Soto, a pastor from the resort city of Viña del Mar, is among the most outspoken critics of the expa…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…a missionary—that was apparent, but I was going to do it in my own way. Still Angry about Galileo Nancy and I eat lunch at a noodle place in the kitschy neighborhood west of the Capitol. I am starved and I eat fast and furiously. I am aware that I’m uncharacteristically not using the best manners. Am I medicating with food—am I trying to fill the God-shaped vacuum? I laugh at myself then. Will the atheists at last bring me back to the fold? I eat…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…“pays my ticket when I speed.” “She don’t come and I won’t follow,” even while she “waits backstage while I sing to you.” Having grown up around those parking lots full of Mamas and Old Ladies and glazed young girls, there’s something creepy in those lines. The hippie subculture was deeply misogynistic in many ways, and by the time the ’60s washed out and the ’70s rolled around, the Dead’s home base of San Francisco was awash in young women with v…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…was caught after the murder, fleeing halfway across the state, he had the phone number of an Operation Rescue leader on his dashboard—the tip of the iceberg in terms of the broader connections he’d built with anti-abortion extremists. The church, Roeder would later testify, emerged as the only place he could find a shot at Tiller, around the elaborate security measures the doctor had learned to follow at his clinic and home. “Justifiable homicide…

Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…rder south of here and are making their way north for jobs or to rejoin family. Millsap estimates that it’s at least a three-day hike from the border across parts of the reservation. Many of these migrants, overwhelmed by the heat, rough terrain, and lack of water, can’t make it. They often come poorly prepared, unable to carry enough water and sometimes wearing little more on their feet than sandals. The Sonoran Desert is filled with cacti and br…