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Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…ervened in Afghanistan to prop up its preferred client government, and the United States worked with select allies to back fundamentalist movements on the ground, preferring the more religiously extreme. Afghanistan has known war, occupation, starvation, extremism, and hardship, for some thirty-seven years now, and there appears to be no end in sight. Much more happened beside, but the nadir might have come with the Bush administration. Secular, d…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…any Christian nationalists, it’s hard to believe they exist in significant numbers. My problem, though, is this: I don’t know any Christian nationalists. Perhaps that’s because there are not in fact that many of them. A 2022 survey by the Pew Research Center found that more than half (54 percent) of adults in the United States had never even heard of the term “Christian nationalism,” and another 17 percent or so had heard only “a little bit.” Of t…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…e return to a world of cultures in conflict, and ‘multiculturalism’ in the United States, which is to say the abandonment of Judeo-Christian, Western culture and values here at home.” In 1994, Lind framed the conflict as the decline of the West at the hands of the multiculturalists, and added dubious claims about Islamic incursions as well: Now we, the West, find ourselves increasingly under siege, no longer the world’s master, merely one contende…

As UN Considers Status of Women, It’s Time for the Vatican to Take Its Rightful Place

By Mary E. Hunt

…d of clerical hegemony. What do these changes mean for the Holy See at the United Nations, particularly at the CSW? Voluntary withdrawal from discussions at meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women is a good place to start. It is hard to name a state or a religious group that has done more than the Holy See to thwart the spirit and the letter of CSW which affirms that the “full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of a…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…nce, Aziz criticized Harris for writing that Islamophobic incidents in the United States are “tiny in number, often property-related, and still dwarfed five-fold by similar offenses against Jews.” Aziz countered that violence done against one minority should never be downplayed because there is greater violence against another minority. Harris has the supreme privilege—a rich, white man’s privilege, I should add—of remaining aloof and ignorant abo…

Anti-Immigrant Legislator Takes Aim At Arizona Children

By Joanna Brooks

…nited States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”—puts pressure on a belief in the divine inspiration of the U.S. Constitution cherished by many conservative Mormons. Some Mormons have already gone on record in opposition to the new bill, sensitized perhaps by negative publicity about Mor…

Shhh…Don’t Speak of Abortion: Roe v. Wade at Thirty-Six

By Frederick Clarkson

…s to abortion care is a significant problem of health care delivery in the United States. A major study by the Guttmacher Institute found that some 87% of US counties lack a single abortion provider. The study notes a long-term decline in the rate of abortion in the United States, but could not determine whether this was because of increased access to and use of contraception, or due to the lack of access to abortion providers. And yet, even of th…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…port” is without any data to back it up, save the most easily quantifiable numbers of people, visits, and the like. Individual reports will go to “those Institutes which hosted an onsite visitation and to those Institutes whose individual reports indicated areas of concern.” No one expects those to be love letters. We Are (Still) All Nuns As I have written here at RD (See, “We Are All Nuns” and other stories. -The Eds) the Visitation was not the o…

Air Force Speaking Invitation to Member of “Lord’s Army” Sparks Outrage

By Lauri Lebo

…achieving its own mission of preparing Academy cadets to be the very best United States Air Force ocers possible, these very same Air Force Academy cadets and staff will still be consigned to hell unless they accept former Lt. McClary’s own version of Christianity. Such statements are not only antithetical to the clear mission of the United States Air Force Academy, they are totally anathema to the purportedly globally inclusive purpose of this…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…gious meaning. The bill’s secular opponents—such as the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State—and its religious opponents, including Haslam, are united in the view that such a separation is impossible. This is in a deep sense a semiotic failure on both ends of the political spectrum. But it may also be a recognition of the Bible’s unique role as a political and legal powder keg in American history, going back to the Bible ri…