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Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…s prior to the bill’s emergence, Muslim and Christian ministers called on the government to crack down on gays. Very similar rhetoric is now being heard in Ghana, with gays being accused of recruiting in schools and contributing to the rise in disease and moral decay. If the media reports are an indication, Mr. Knight is correct that the Ghanaian public is growing fearful that gays will lead to catastrophe in that country. What is not clear is whe…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…hism, the Inquisition, etc.) For example, the Catholic crusade against the Cathars, a heretical Christian sect, lasted two decades; one battle, the siege of Béziers, resulted in the massacre of thousands, including clerics, women, and children. Nor do the history standards ask students to show how, say, Islam was “a unifying factor” in the Muslim world, or Confucianism was “a unifying factor” in China. Another standard locates the origins of three…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…ulnerability, especially for atheists who are so often the object of vilification in American society. The surveys, for example, routinely show that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist for president than an individual of any other social, religious, or ethnic group. This vilification has really shaped the aggressively defensive public posture some atheists seem to assume. But I read your work and find myself imagining what an atheist…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…ttracted a generation of Germans battered by war, violence, and sociopolitical dislocation. In the Epilogue I suggest that today, as in Germany a century ago, there is a renaissance in border scientific, faith-based, conspiracy-driven reasoning, which has begun to correlate with illiberal political and ideological convictions, influencing national elections, domestic social policies, and matters of war and peace. I believe this phenomenon is evide…

Right Wingers Say “Gay” is Out, But Try Putting “Unnatural Vice” On a Bumper Sticker

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…all, researchers say the actual number of Evangelicals may well be “as small as 7 percent of the total adult population.” Which means Evangelicals know just how effective a small number of people can be at taking away the rights of other people. They just want to be the only minority with the power to do that….

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…in Triratna are conservatives. One also wonders how he squares his apolitical call with some of the articles written by his co-editors. Reproducing familiar conservative rhetoric, one of these denounces the “postmodern anti-racism” of Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory but adds a unique twist by comparing the current “police racism panic” to the “ritual panic abuses” of the 1980s. Another compares responses to structural racism, climate…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…tails the Family’s storied history of union-busting in the service of biblical capitalism). As Sharlet told me in a 2008 interview, the Family’s founder, Abraham Vereide, was opposed to the social gospel, believed that unions were a form of disobedience against God, and had a vision at the height of the Great Depression: “God doesn’t want to have soup kitchens or social welfare programs, God doesn’t like what FDR is doing.” Bittman, for his part,…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…meal transformed into a political act of remembering. This episode communicates a sacramental truth of a way that faith prioritizes keeping the dead alive through the way we live. What will we do in remembrance of the dead? The nature of the tragedy in San Bernardino has been normalized as a seemingly immutable daily fact of American life. Gun violence in the U.S., as intimated by President Barack Obama, is unparalleled anywhere else in the world…

Are You Rapture Ready?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of a Broadway show. Jesus is about to make his big entrance only his final number will feature the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Tom Evans, spokesman for Family Radio said their math for setting the return date came from a verse in Luke 17: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.” According to Camping’s prediction, the Rapture will happen exactly 7,000 years from the date that God first warned people about…

‘Heretics’ or ‘Atheists’? A Response

By Rachel Ozanne

…ch I grew up in emphasized strict adherence to its doctrine. In short, I became a nonbeliever because I took very seriously Christianity and its truth claims, not because I found them laughable. Given that many people currently understand the term atheist to mean, as Blanchard put it, “militant secularism,” I find her idea that a heretic can “claim some connection to Christianity” appealing. I also want a name that implies the depth of my engageme…