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Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…tes here: “Sample” refers to the number of participants in the PRRI poll, out of a total of about 40,000. They’re roughly proportional to the size of that group in the population. I’ve given the vertical axis a log scale so you can make out the smaller groups. PRRI divides certain groups into Evangelical and Mainline camps, hence the “Ev.” and “M” in front of some labels. These results aren’t terribly surprising. It does illustrate just how wide a…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…primarily by medical staff who used syringes to squirt poison into their mouths. But this staff was aided by parents, make no mistake about that. In addition, a number of senior citizens are reported to have been injected with poison, but it’s impossible to determine how many. This leaves the problem of how many adults voluntarily drank the “Kool-Aid.” Suicide is, of course, called into question if they were surrounded by armed guards, though the…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…cted believe in God as a college student. Yes, DuBois and Johnson wrote about religion, but they did so in recognition of the cultural force of organizations such as the black churches not as an endorsement of the theology of those churches. DuBois and Johnson are some of those who, based on their lack of belief, wouldn’t be black enough for black-ish‘s father of the house. Assuming all African Americans believe because they are African Americans…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…least, by the example of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. But putting one African American woman priest into a film does not justify a group of almost exclusively white, highly educated women, employing the analogy used here to make their point. (And if you have any doubts about this, take a look at the slide show on the Roman Catholic WomenPriests webpage and count the black faces—then count the number of graduate degrees after th…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zens. “This civil marriage constitutional referendum, in my opinion, is about giving statutory recognition and protection, irrespective of sex, to the relationships of all people who publicly want such recognition by the State, nothing more, nothing less. “I don’t believe that a ‘Yes’ vote will actively impact children’s well-being. “What is important – irrespective of the family configuration that children are a part of, and I think we all recogn…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…ly half of the reported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state without the approval of the families. When Muslim and Christian families of cremated victims brought their case to the Supreme Court, the court refused to hear the case. In protest, Muslim families have started to refus…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…and white culture and society in the decades leading up to the Civil War, but about which we know very little. I hope that readers of the book walk away with a greater understanding for and appreciation of the importance of early black newspapers and the people who made them. The newspaper was, by leaps and bounds, the most important media of the early nineteenth century. I often think of it as the television of the twentieth century or the intern…

The Family Research Council’s Mistaken Identity

By Sarah Posner

…n identity oriented. Southers was not talking about ordinary churchgoers, but rather about the radical far right, described in the FBI’s Project Megiddo report as “a vast number and variety of groups, such as survivalists, militias, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Christian Identity churches, the AN and skinheads.” The report called Christian Identity “the most unifying theology for a number of these diverse groups and one widely adhered to by white…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…remists like the Afghan Taliban banned much more than images of Muhammad, but many earlier Muslims depicted their prophet in drawings out of reverence; Islamic manuscripts before the 17th century did, in fact, portray Muhammad; at times in full and otherwise with his face whited out or veiled. Most Muslim scholars today condemn the illustrating of the physical features of Muhammad, but mainstream interpreters do not call for death threats against…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…ks, and tens of thousands of priests (never a moment of failure, indeed). But throughout Fighting God, Silverman never seems particularly concerned with letting facts get in the way of a good narrative or pithy one-liner. Nowhere is this sloppiness clearer, ironically enough, than when Silverman discusses atheism. Just as Silverman relies on a caricature of religion as a malicious entity only capable of perpetuating evil, he renders atheism as big…