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Studies Confirm: Your Steak is Possessed by Demons

By Travis Proctor

…he philosopher believed that animal meat is infested with evil demons that use sacrificial meals as a conduit to corrupt the human body. Once inside the body, Porphyry asserts, these demons use the human digestive system to glut their appetites, emitting harmful gasses as they digest the meat. The telltale sign of demonic infection is uncomfortable bloating, flatulence, and belching. For Porphyry, then, burps at the dinner table weren’t just viola…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…t the visit and that Episcopal clergy who were present are livid about the use of violence to clear the space. https://twitter.com/DavidBrodyCBN/status/1267653579852185602?s=20 https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1267820563679989762?s=20 Of course, more insidious than the direct praise of Trump’s show of Christian nationalist force, which came on the heels of his threat to use the military to restore order in the face of days of demonstrati…

Jihad Chai Latte

By Haroon Moghul

…rganize some kind of lecture or event series which rejects the extremist abuse of Islam and explains how their abuse of Islam is flawed, immoral, and historically and theologically wrong. Misguided. Evil. And then, a columnist in an international newspaper makes a throwaway reference to “jihad” in the sense that extremists have used it, confirms the popular impression of what jihad is and what it means, and all that effort is immediately undone….

Court Rules Religiously-Based Restrictions in HHS Contracts with Bishops Violate Establishment Clause

By Sarah Posner

…ge Stearns’ decision shows that the Bishops were not, in fact, entitled to use taxpayer money to refuse to refer victims of sex trafficking and rape for a full range of reproductive health services. That, Judge Stearns held, amounted to an impermissible government endorsement of a particular religious view because, although “[b]eliefs about the morality of abortion and the use of contraceptives need not be based on a religious viewpoint,” in this…

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…e court’s right-wing majority will continue to ignore the establishment clause and blow up the free exercise clause into a broadly applicable special rights provision. A free ticket for the religious to exempt themselves from federal and state laws—most importantly, public health and anti-discrimination laws. JS: Do these special rights provisions apply equally? The court is on a mission to remake free-exercise law. Not too long ago, it held that…

Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…music, it is rigidly structured but seemingly spontaneous.” The unexpected use of song within a spoken sermon is not unlike an ambitious solo that threatens the musical structure around it, but then brings it to a resolution that did not seem possible. Preachers who could pull off such feats from the pulpit, Davis once said, were regarded as the “word magicians” of the community. Some kind of magic certainly seemed to be required to end a week of…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…another such fantasy at work, as well, this likewise tied to the insistent use of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, with its persistent High Medieval echo of the Sarum Rite, amplified through the Roman adaptation in the Book of Divine Worship. As historian Norman Cantor taught us some time ago, the Middle Ages have been remarkably adaptable to the prevailing projections of those who study the period. For Enlightenment thinkers, the Middle Ages signa…

Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military — A Man Deemed an ‘Extremist’ by the US Military

By Jeff Sharlet

…graduate of Princeton and Harvard. He knows what he’s doing here with his use of “indigenous” and “territory.” And his hatred for the “infection” doesn’t stop at bastions of liberalism such as Sodom, San Francisco, and, the Marines; it goes all the way up to any commander in chief not named Trump: Trump’s secretary of defense—responsible for executing the orders to use the US military domestically, that Trump has said he will give, the unlawful o…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…r telling time and making measurements by the sun or stars. You could even use it to calculate the circumference of the earth, which Gerbert and his peers knew very well was not flat like a disc but round as an apple. Much of this science Gerbert learned as a youth living on the border of Islamic Spain, then an extraordinarily tolerant culture in which learning was prized. Born a peasant in the mountains of France in the mid-900s, Gerbert entered…

RDPulpit: Torture Needs You

By Sarah Sentilles

…of strength, of empire, of sacrifice, of righteousness, of power. And because of this transformation, because of this denial, the torturer can return to step one, inflicting ever-increasing amounts of pain on the person standing right next to him. Scarry calls this denial self-blinding. She writes that “only this final act of self-blinding permits the shift back to the first step… for to allow the reality of the other’s suffering to enter [the to…