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Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

“Cease and desist” was Sarah Palin’s rebel yell at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week, in a speech attacking the Fed’s plan to buy up $600 billion in government debt to stimulate the US economy. While the plan known as “quantitative easing” has been, like all monetary policy, the subject of debate, Palin’s speech wasn’t disagreement so much as it was a rallying cry for Tea Partiers, and a reassertion the Christian Reconstructionist b…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…school, and Santorum is for “social sanity.” Here’s the text of the robocall, via the website JewsandChristianstogether.org: Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts. And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from California. If you believe as we do that marriage and sexuality should only be between a man and a woman, please help us stop Mitt Romney. As Governor, Romney signed “Gay Youth Pride Day” declarations, promoted homo…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

Like for Halloween and Christmas, the sales pitches arrive well before the actual event. Television, radio, newspapers, piles of merchandise in stores you visit, and blogs all announce: Back to School! For some it’s kindergarten, for others, the very first day of college. School is starting soon. And that may mean losing your religion. And no, not the R.E.M. song. Nor, indeed, most of the definitions of the phrase out there—losing your temper, gi…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…nts. In the case of the Branch Davidians, intervention by authorities actually harmed the very children their actions were intended to protect. And while the children of Yearning for Zion have not been subjected to deadly assaults, that does not mean they are not being harmed by the actions of the authorities. Significantly, in both cases, the fact that the media names these religious groups “cults” creates a climate in which the public accepts wh…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…re and the pacifism of his family legacy. But what did Mahatma Gandhi actually think of the idea of Israel, and of the fate of the Jews of his time? As it turns out, M.K. Gandhi engaged in sustained conversation with Jewish intellectuals of his day—many of whom were dismayed by the great man’s insistence, for example, that Jews in Germany should have willingly “offered themselves to the butcher’s knife.” In this essay, Shalom Goldman sketches out…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…While the Washington gathering saluted the nomination of Sarah Palin, extolled the virtues of opposing abortion, same-sex marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, David Gushee, a Mercer University professor and Baptist preacher, was helping lead a discussion amongst some 200 U.S. religious, legal and political leaders about the use of torture in the war on terrorism at a conference called A National Summit on Torture: Religious Faith, Torture &…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…a blog. If you picture the discussion of religion in the public square, really try to imagine a square, and people gathered around talking, well…what’s happening on Cho’s blog is sort of like a bunch of people hurling…er…manure. But I mean that in a sort of amused way, not in a tut-tut kind of way. It’s just a funny image. Here at RD we are trying to project some kind of earnestness. In the public square we are the ones wearing black jeans or twee…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

I’ve just watched Bill Maher’s cheap-thrills-but-funny-and-semi-provocative Religulous and find myself fantasizing about having “Bill” in my Introduction to Religious Studies course, right next to Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and other sort-of-atheists. (I’m talking the nerdy academic’s version of “fantasy football” here.) And I give them the assignment I always give to my eighteen-year-old students: come up with your own de…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Action PAC press release stated. “ The ‘Freedom of Choice Act,’ [which] will overturn virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion… is a response to the Matthew 25 [a pro-Obama religious organization] initiative, which sought to mislead voters and downplay Obama’s extreme pro-abortion views.” The ad buy, which will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and in the Washington D.C. market, “will target Christian radio station…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…herry Turkle has claimed, that in our increasingly mediated world “we are all dreaming cyborg dreams,” it is certainly safe to say that at least some of these dreams are religious ones. In this essay, I look at four types of immersive new media that address the issue of religious identity: Waco Resurrection, a religiously-inspired first-person shooter, Noah’s Ark, a religious online reality show; Roma Victor, a massive multiplayer online role-play…