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Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ate, an ancient institution revived by Vatican II. In 2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied th…

Candidate Sharron Angle Accuses Opponent of Idolatry

By Julie Ingersoll

…irst of the Ten Commandments prohibiting idolatry.” Jon Ralston at the Las Vegas Sun reported on a radio interview recently come-to-light in which Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle made exactly this argument against social programs promoted by “Obama, Pelosi and [her opponent] Harry Reid.” You can read about it and listen to the radio interview here. Angle said, entitlement programs…make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening i…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…the assault rifle ban expired? After Columbine? Sandy Hook? Parkland? Las Vegas? Maybe after a man with a long gun killed 49 people in a queer club in Orlando, Florida six years ago. Maybe Congress could have acted then to make it more difficult to buy a weapon that can easily kill so many people. But they didn’t. And now five more people are dead and twenty-five more injured. The system is working perfectly. And late 2022 is bearing the fruits o…

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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 Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…rence to Lady Gaga’s calling-out of the Vice President at a recent show in Las Vegas, as the “worst representation of what it means to be a Christian.” Although prominent right-wing Christians, such as Franklin Graham, didn’t take to kindly to the jab, Graves-Fitzsimmons ran with it. As he put it, “Lady Gaga stood up for our faith and fought back.” Graves-Fitzsimmons sees in such prominent figures such as Lady Gaga and junior congresswoman Alexand…

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…he Party City” at last September’s Religion News Association Conference in Las Vegas. According to Lynch’s report, Lobert’s previous grant funding “was not renewed in 2018 after the state obtained Hookers for Jesus program manuals saying it was ‘mandatory’ for guests of the group’s shelter, Destiny House, to attend services and volunteer at a specific church.” Furthermore, “Its staff training manual said homosexuality is immoral and abusing drugs…

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…

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…

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…

‘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…