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UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…ebec’s lamentable endorsement of a broader Islamophobia that has swept the Western world in the post-9/11 context. The defeat of the government at the polls on 7 April would seem to indicate that the agenda of the Charter has now come to an end, and that Quebeckers have rejected its divisive politics. In the words of Bernard Drainville, the principal architect of Bill 60, on the day after the election, “It’s over, the Charter. We did what we cou…

Jack Ryan Uses Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA

By Erin Runions

…pulpy example of a larger pattern of scriptural citation that obscures and promotes tensions between market forces and nationalism, dynamics I discuss in depth in my book, The Babylon Complex (Oxford University Press, 2014). A reboot of the older Jack Ryan series—based on Tom Clancy novels like Hunt for Red October—Shadow Recruit uses an all new screenplay by Adam Cozad and David Koepp. Still, the film is highly reminiscent of the earlier series’…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…nel, “videos to make your noggin get bigger,” contains several videos that promote 9/11 trutherism and COVID-19 conspiracy theories. There is a video that features Richard Gage, the founder of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, speculating about the financial benefactors from the Twin Towers’ collapse. The theme of an evil new world order run by craven elites is extended in the next verse: I wish politicians would look o…

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…

Mat Staver vs. the Anti-Immigrant Right

By Sarah Posner

…at the Values Voters Summit this morning: veering from a cosmic battle for Western Civilization, to his legal battle against “Obamacare,” to why America should “support” Israel and fight “radical Islam,” the “same radicalism that hates Israel is the same radicalism that hates America.” From there, he went on to an excoriation of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (“this issue of destroying the family, destroying the idea of God, was paramount in Kinsey’…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…in structuring and sustaining social systems. A predominant element of the Western imaginary, the idea that black persons ultimately exist as servants for white life, has long been supported by rhetorical constructions of Christianity. The most obvious examples, of course, were rituals such as catechisms about the necessity for [black] servants to obey [white] masters. Less obvious examples include contemporary statements pairing assertions that t…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…es. Slater told me the same thing, saying “We do not support any laws that promote violence against homosexuals.” She added that her organization presents research showing that gays can change orientation. Such research is relevant to her stance because, “laws that promote violence would discourage therapy for people with unwanted same-sex attraction.” I asked Mrs. Slater if she considers a 14-year jail sentence a form of violence. She said that h…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…the profundity and brilliance of the conceptual work that was done in the Western world for more than 1500 years, when it was dominated by the discipline of theology. But we don’t want to reduce post-Christian criticisms of Christian idolatries to mere anti-faith, either. It wouldn’t do justice to the depths of the agnostic and atheist traditions which are, themselves, deeply prophetic traditions. Still, I think it’s important to stay mindful of…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…ance of democratic institutions, which is good for us, since right now the Western world is economically troubled, and challenged by rising authoritarian powers. Arab and Muslim countries worlds are pushing strongly for democracy, democratic inclusion, and fair participation—we could find ourselves new allies in a crucial time. But how exactly could this happen, if our politics isn’t merely contextually irrelevant, but factually wrong and rheto…

What’s Eating Mitt Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…ed sense of duty propel Romney into running for president despite misgivings about his own retail political skills? Finally, perhaps his patriarchal legacy has weighed on Mitt Romney. I’ve often described Mormonism as the most overtly patriarchal religion in the Western world. In our culture, the examples of the fathers rest heavily on the sons. As do their missteps. It might, then, be most generous to answer Romano’s rather pointed question “what…