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In the Name of the Father, Son, and Q: Why It’s Important to See QAnon as a ‘Hyper-Real’ Religion

By Marc-André Argentino

…religion, a tax exempt 501c3 institution, or the kind of traditional brick-and-mortar religion most are familiar with. However, by framing QAnon as a religion—in particular, a hyper-real religion—we create a framework that helps us better study, report and understand QAnon. More importantly, it demonstrates that the movement needs to be taken seriously and has the socio-political and behavioral impacts that other religions have. In doing so, it p…

Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…” course at UPenn. Go to top *See, for example, Amanda Furiase, “Is Covid-19 introducing a new generation to fears of ‘Jewish contagion?,” Religion Dispatches, March 31, 2020; Samuel Perry, “Americans who rage against political correctness are also the most xenophobic -and most likely to vote Trump in 2020,” Religion Dispatches, March 24, 2020….

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…another nationally prominent Texan is Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at the 13,000-member First Baptist Dallas church. His Pathway to Victory radio and television ministry is carried by more than 900 U.S. radio stations as well as the Christian television networks Daystar and Trinity Broadcasting Network. However, he’s probably better known nationally as a Fox News contributor and an outspoken supporter of, and apologist for, President Trump. Duri…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…me as the old playbooks, advises legislators to engage in political sleight-of-hand in the framing of legislation, the CPCF’s about page remains unambiguous about their intentions. Their mission, they say, is to unite “government leaders at local, state and federal levels, as well as everyday citizens” to restore “Judeo-Christian* principles to their rightful place.” To carry this out, they say, “We support legislators who promote policies that up…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…arsaw conference. Elsewhere, she claims to have successfully advocated face-to-face with UK parliamentarians against the national conversion therapy ban, which was dropped by premier Rishi Sunak last autumn. Also present was retired doctor Christl R. Vonholdt, a prominent figure in the conversion therapy bubble, who traveled from Germany. A member of the IFTCC Board of Directors from 2017 to 2020, Vonholdt directed the German Institute for Youth a…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…Israel?” The honesty of Hartman’s description belies the rhetorical sleight-of-hand of his solution. We change the very parameters of how we define liberalism in Israel/Palestine, and then offer rubrics to apply liberal language inside those new parameters. One can argue that this is merely using liberal ideas to defend an illiberal reality, which in one sense is true. But Hartman is saying more than that. He knows that the reality is illiberal as…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…“the Left” not just their political opponent, but mortal enemy, a deeply un-American force that threatens the very core of “real” (read White, Christian) America, which must be stopped. They will continue to fight about how to achieve this in 2023. During 2022, some voices within the Right grew louder which called for the open embrace for totalitarianism and fascism, to do away with libertarianism in order to fully embrace the tyrannical use of st…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…hysical world and the loftier questions of self and soul. That kind of back-and-forth has been central to the career of David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine. As an academic researcher, Eagleman has studied time perception, synesthesia, sensory input, and decision-making. But that more traditional work has included some less-than-traditional research techniques—Eagleman has dropped research subjects from a 150-foot-tal…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…of meat. The slabs of chicken flesh in the fridge, snug in their styrofoam-and-shrink-wrap nest, seemed as alien as cuts of dog. I could not get over the strangeness of consumption: that we eat the muscles of chickens and fish; that my own flesh is built from the flesh of dead things; that, for all our fantasies of individualism, we live on a planet where bodies flow into other bodies. Americans consume, in total, around sixty billion pounds of a…

Militias, Trump, Guns, and ISIS: Too much Masculinity?

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

…ect, and act with purpose, where is action possible? Some of the old, tried-and-true approaches include improved employment and other opportunities for young men. We also seem to need invigorated spaces where men might express purpose in ways that lead to service and civic engagement instead of to hostility and violence. But the first step is to understand that in an age defined by sensational expressions of purpose in an outrage-focused media sph…