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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…singularity could be as great as the first singularity. [Ed.- This loosely parallels the Kabbalist concept of tzimtzum.] The reason that this is important is that it guarantees free will in the system that we have right now from a philosophical point of view. I call it theistcideism because it’s an atheistic philosophy that says God killed him or herself. I suggest it just for reading, and it gives a little bit more complexity into my ideas. While…

God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…sins, and in a show of great mercy, she would be busy apologizing to [gay people who want to marry] for enabling them, and she would, with all diligence, give those perverts a marriage license….

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…onymous with a certain kind of hip, Silicon Valley-style wonkishness. A viral talk, like Cuddy’s, can launch public careers and drive books onto the bestseller list. Newness is part of TED’s vibe, but the genre it represents is old. If anything, the talks are the latest flowering of a very particular American genre—one that straddles the line between the classroom and church, and between the rhetoric of scientific progress and the rhetoric of divi…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ights of LGBT People Randy Berry when he visited the country. The evangelical Malawi Council of Churches also weighed in, with a spokesperson saying that the timing of Berry’s visit did”not consider the religious and cultural dynamics of the country.” Archbishops Thomas Msusa told the Nyasa Times, “Our teaching and a majority of our faithful have spoken clearly against the bullying of our international partners on issues of constitutional chance t…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…r al Baghdadi. Federal law enforcement officials added that in that brief call he also referenced the Tsarnaev brothers who exploded bombs during the 2013 Boston Marathon. It is not clear why Omar referred to the Tsarnaev brothers, although with our limited knowledge of the incident his attack and theirs seem eerily similar. Both were assaults on public spaces, soft targets, conducted without any notice. In both cases the perpetrators had personal…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…-determined patterns, and these patterns can be scried with the right crystal ball. AL: Yes. It’s only the illusion of free will. Which brings us back to Trump and the prediction sites. There’s something less threatening—and maybe more practically achievable—about predicting what masses of humans will do in one constrained area, than predicting what will happen in a single individual’s romantic life, say. MHS: Do you think the function of somethin…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…s constituents know it is painful. Beyond those constituencies, institutional upheavals are reminders that big trends like mainline decline don’t just affect poll numbers, but actual people in actual places. That school you’ve heard of—though no one you know attended it—and that church you drive by daily—though you never entered it—might one day be gone, or converted into lofts, or have its sign replaced by one in a language you can’t read. Seismi…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…ng us they’re safe aren’t trustworthy. In this sense, the campaign’s original tweet really was off-message. To say that “there’s no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines” is to make an authoritative statement that parrots scientific orthodoxy. The slightly edited version—“I’m not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines”—places the candidate at a critical remove. Instead of repeating the scientific consensus, now she’s just aware of it….

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…late as Friday: “This is an Agenda which seeks to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights. It will work to ensure that human rights and fundamental freedoms are enjoyed by all without discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, color, sex, age, language, religion, culture, migration status, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic situation, birth, disability or other status.” In the end, she says, “the compromise the…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…don’t look like typical churches, though—they look like big box stores or malls. Also there’s just so, so many domes. But it’s hard to make a generalization about what they’re preaching because I have a hard time figuring out what the differences between the ideologies are. Do you mind sharing a little about your own religious background and how it might have informed your motivations for the project? My parents were not very religious. I mean the…