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Texas Textbooks, Kenyan Constitution, And Slurs Of “That Jew” and “Monkey God”

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…loy to reduce the population of his growing sect” that does not believe in Western medicine. Arkansas state senator Kim Hendren attempted to explain why she referred to Senator Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” by saying “At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show.” Hendren attracted 4 percent of the vote in the first round of the GOP Senate primary…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…es subcultures into conformance despite their less happy circumstances. In Western societies like Britain and the United States, the affluence of the powerful few, uninterested with religion as they happily are, shapes the norms of religious participation for the society as a whole. The effect is to minimize the role of religion as a social balm. That is, the United Kingdom, among the ten least religious nations in Diener’s study, is pretty much a…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…s and movements, including military calisthenics, modern medicine, and the Western European and North American physical culture of gymnasts, bodybuilders, martial experts, and contortionists. Yoga proponents constructed new postural yoga systems in the twentieth century, and nothing like them appeared in the historical record up to that time. Another unfortunate but common misconception is that yoga is a mere commodity of global market capitalism…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ion is standard among various factions of the Christian Right, but Wallnau promotes a unique and even more pernicious brand of NAR teachings on gender and sexuality, including the dangerous idea that LGBTQ-identifying kids need to be “delivered” from demons. As noted earlier, “deliverance” among NAR adherents is coded language for exorcism, which is an even more noxious version of the psychologically (and often physically) harmful practice of LGBT…

Author Responds to Criticism of Teilhard Eugenics Essay

By John P. Slattery

…I would argue, of paramount importance in the modern world. The history of Western Colonialism is littered with philosophies of destruction and death; eugenics—literally, the culling of specific humans for the supposed benefit of others—clearly falls among the worst philosophical approaches. Support for such practices—just like support for slavery, misogyny, anti-black racism, and anti-Semitism—must be thrust into the spotlight if we’re to continu…