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Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…ucation was life-long. His opposition to unjust wars, including the war in Iraq, set him apart at times from his colleagues and his bishops. Most of his work could be said to be in the Catholic tradition of social justice and there is no doubt that that tradition influenced the Senator and the man. His religion was not, however, worn on his sleeve; he did not ask aloud “what would Jesus do?” nor did he quote any of the 3,000 biblical references to…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…Versions of this argument have been made before. During the selling of the Iraq War and the broader “War on Terror,” for example, both neoconservatives and radical Islamists were invested in the widespread perception of an imminent existential threat to Western civilization. Both were invested in a Clash of Civilizations scenario, and both relied on the power of the apocaplyptic vision to build support for their causes. The anthropologist Kathleen…

The Heresy of End Times Predictions

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mptions that help to make sense of these prophetic attempts to discern the signs of the end times in the here and now. First, it’s instructive to note that the New Testament book of Revelation is consistently read in tandem with the Hebrew book of Daniel, the same book from which early followers of Jesus are said to have borrowed his title, “the Son of Man.” Second, though probably first in importance, these books are read, not as psychedelically…

Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…m. But even Bernard Lewis, one of the leading defenders of the invasion of Iraq, has conceded that to blame Islam as an ideology for the present state of the Muslim world reeks of intellectual dishonesty. “If Islam is an obstacle to freedom, to science, to economic development,” Lewis asks, “how is it that Muslim society in the past was a pioneer in all three—and this when Muslims were much closer in time to the sources and inspiration of their fa…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…ights, it would not have armed Saddam Hussein after he gassed the Kurds in Iraq; it would not still be arming the Egyptian military after its coup and murder of thousands; it would not be arming Israel without demanding that Israel end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and create a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. The U.S., finally, would not have waited until one hundred thousand Syrians were killed to begin contemplating act…

My Bible and the Bill of Rights

By Linell Cady

…America’s soul. The song narrates the story of an unemployed veteran from Iraq whose job has been outsourced to China via Washington. Outraged at the greedy capitalists, stagnating wages, high unemployment, and fundamentally unequal playing field, the song challenges and inspires fellow Americans to fight back and return America to her true path. Religious imagery and resonances abound. The very title of the song and initiative are a play on the…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…to where they were with Bush spreading the bald-faced lies to get us into Iraq, with the same intensity…I’m so sick of these people that want to send your sons and daughters on these foreign battlefields immediately to die.” “Neocons are salivating,” lamented MAGA pundit Mike Cernovich, who railed against Christian Zionists as “useful idiots for neocons and defense contractors” and lamented that “people like me are stuck in the middle of anti-Ame…

It’s Hard to be a Jew

By Ira Chernus

…ssion. How busy? My government won’t tell me. It’s bad enough knowing that Iraqis and Afghans are killed in my name. It’s worse to have no idea how many have died, nor who the victims were, what they looked like, where they lived, or how painfully they died. When Israel kills in my name, at least I get an approximate death toll. And occasionally I get human names and faces attached to the act, like the little girls who were found clinging to their…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…o foreground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desen…

Repentance on Wall Street?

By Nathan Schneider

…the jobs with which voters have entrusted them. President Obama shows some sign of changing this tune with his spate of apologies for America’s past behavior toward Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. But what he means is that his predecessor did wrong; it remains to be seen whether he finds himself capable of being culpable too. Save for the help of the Yes Men, the team of pranksters who apologized on the BBC for Dow Chemical’s role in t…