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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…, what is now the nation’s fourth-worst gun massacre (the shootings in Las Vegas being number one), was “only the 14th mass murder at an American house of worship since 1963.” Only! We have to have rankings of such things now, complete with charts detailing deadly incidents at faith properties… and by denomination? The interminable debate about prayers-vs.-action was back, too. As soon as politicians started tweeting their standard lines about “th…

The Devil Stole Rod Parsley’s Money

By Sarah Posner

…ain of the pastor. Parsley, for example, has his own jet, which he flew to Las Vegas one Sunday in 2007, apparently for a personal trip. From God’s Profits: Parsley boasts that over the years he has had four different planes that have shuttled him more than a million miles around the world, allegedly to preach the gospel. The current plane is dubbed Shamgar VII, which Parsley translates as “God on the move.” (In the Bible, Shamgar was a judge who…

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…

Sex Buys the Pulitzer Prize

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…o others also announced on Monday. For “Public Service Reporting,” the Las Vegas Sun received the award for its reporting of large numbers of construction-related deaths in the city, deaths directly or indirectly tied to budget cuts and lax regulation. And for “Investigative Reporting,” David Barstow of the New York Times won the award for unmasking the latest innovation in the old Eisenhower-era “military-industrial complex”: namely, retired gene…

In the Name of the Father, Son, and Q: Why It’s Important to See QAnon as a ‘Hyper-Real’ Religion

By Marc-André Argentino

…rom film and popular culture. As such, Terry Gilliam’ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is recommended by QAnon followers as evidence of the effects of Adrenochrome; The Matrix’s blue pill/red pill scene is used to frame the choice to either be a part of the Great Awakening or to remain “asleep”; and the slogan “Where We Go One, We Go All” is from the film White Squall, whose official YouTube trailer’s comments section is filled with QAnon followers…

Man-made Breasts, Or, Grace in Graceless Times

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd now, topless pictures. Alicia Jacobs, Entertainment Reporter at KVBC in Las Vegas, has seen all six of the photos and says some are much more revealing. Alicia believes the flicks may have been taken after Carrie’s pageant-financed breast augmentation about six weeks ago. Liberal blogs have exploded with the news, chastising Prejean for her apparent hypocrisy — accusing gays and lesbians of some manner of lesser morality, while exposing her new…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…to achieve success. Waco Resurrection first appeared at an installation in Las Vegas, at which players were invited to immerse themselves in ways unusual in most FPSs. While they played the game, participants at the installation donned a “Koresh skin” that consisted of a hard plastic three-dimensional mask, while they were invited to reenact select events from the 1993 violence at the Waco compound that ended the lives of more than 70 people. Acco…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…Newtown, after San Bernadino and Orlando. This time the rampage is in Las Vegas, with more dead, more people hospitalized, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same despair over the potential for action being recycled. There are some differences, of course. Rather than the NRA paying $3 million to elect a senator from Iowa, we now have a president elected with $30 million NRA dollars, and who perha…

‘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…

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…