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A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

With Netanyahu’s latest victory, the prospects of a peaceful outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy seem ever more distant. But it’s not like they were ever very close anyhow. While it’s alleged over and over again that Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist, or specifically its right to exist as a Jewish state, there’s a far more damning fact: Israel isn’t just rhetorically denying the right of a Palestinian state to exist….

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hem or that they can be miraculously healed by touching the garment of the latest faith healer and saying “Baaay-bee!” Religion can also motivate people to kill others like abortion doctors, gays and lesbians, and transgender people all in the name of their god. The single greatest motivator for these 98 subjects however most certainly was a fear-based one. In short, they were all living under the threat of hell. The thought of eternal damnation—…

What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience

By Kaya Oakes

…und to a religious tradition even while they don’t participate in one, the latest Pew survey results come as no surprise. It’s been clear for years that Mainline Protestant Christianity in America is on the decline. That Catholicism also is in precipitous decline—and the news that the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics—is perhaps only surprising to those who haven’t attended a Catholic church recently. Today, 13 percent of American a…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not a simple matter of secularization or non-affiliation. My own working assumption is that many of those who will no longer answer “Christian” in answer to polling questions will still be drawn to Jesus as an ethical icon, as a theophanous human being, and as a social revolutionary, for a long time to come. They may even see Jesus (quite accurately in my view) as s…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…d Ex Machina, both centered on the trials and triumphs of AI machines. The latest arrival in this robo-extravaganza is Avengers: Age of Ultron, out last week from Marvel. The narrative is fairly simple: Tech genius Tony Stark (a.k.a. Ironman) builds AI program (Ultron) designed to protect humanity from evil aliens and other threats; Ultron goes rogue; our superheroes step up to the rescue. Among the explosions and flirty banter, The Cubit detected…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…ut. Badly. 6:50 On Tuesday, a judge sided with Geller against the MTA. Her latest ‘advertisements’, which declare not only that Muslims want to kill Jews, but that our religion instructs us to, are not incitement to violence. Or material support for terrorism. (Imagine if I said that—think I’d be treated the same?) I can imagine all kinds of unsavory characters would be jubilant that messages encouraging the indiscriminate murder of Jews will be p…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…der calls the world’s most progressive gender identity law. The law is the latest in a series of LGBT rights laws ushered in by the Labour Party after taking power in 2013, a dramatic about-face for the country which has aconstitution establishing Catholicism as the official religion. Catholic teachings have long held great influence over Maltese family law; Malta was among the last countries in the world to approve to divorce, which voters did by…

Studies Confirm: Your Steak is Possessed by Demons

By Travis Proctor

…t “a healthy dietary pattern is…lower in red and processed meat,” just the latest installment in an ongoing debate over the health effects of meat. Is meat essential for children’s health, a terrible toxin, or a great tool for eliminating fat? Is it the highway to heart disease, or the key to unlocking your ideal preindustrial self? If you’re confused, you’re in good company. People have been debating the merits of meat for centuries. Dig back to…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Africa for centuries, so this 21st century American campaign is just the latest in a long line of foreign influence. From gay marriage to abortion rights and birth control, the last decades have seen huge strides in the west towards minimising discrimination and encouraging equality. Hatred still exists, but public opinion has experienced a sea change towards accepting difference. The Rev Jackson George Gabriel, the curate of the Episcopal Churc…

Is Religion to Blame for Violence? Karen Armstrong’s Flawed Case

By Paul Harvey

…religion and war go together like a horse and carriage, news broke of the latest atrocity-of-the-day: the beheading of 21 Egyptian men by ISIS, apparently in Tripoli. The men were Coptic Christians, from an Egyptian village where Christians and Muslims have lived together peaceably, but where lack of employment opportunities compel men to look for work abroad. According to NPR, one of the brothers of the victims of the gruesome executions invoked…