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Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…Gold Standard all of which provide data that tell you how much carbon your dollars will offset. These sites are like taking medicine for high cholesterol. They don’t prevent the base of the problem so much as ameliorate it till you can. Before I had been at the conference for an hour, I met Laila and Gender Concerns International. Then I went to a finance meeting, where a British banker, female, was talking about how finance was not the problem. “…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…r this purpose is not huge by international-aid standards— about 7 million dollars a year—but for many foreign groups it is a lifeline. Not only is this funding likely to be cut, but there is the risk of renewed “faith-based” restrictions placed on aid to other groups, as was done during the George W. Bush years, to devastating effect. Then there was the help from individual American diplomats, who marched in contested Pride parades, offering very…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…of blood and plasma—the latter harvested from the poor, who receive a few dollars an hour as machines draw their blood, centrifuge out the precious fluid, and then inject the denuded ichor back into their veins. Infants suck milk from their mothers. Lovers swap spit (and more). Many Christians believe the Eucharist to be the literal flesh and blood of Jesus. Is taking the host an act of cannibalism, too? Schutt is a biologist who studies bats, an…

Roy Moore’s Order To Stop Gay Marriage Licenses: A Case of Flawed Theology

By Marcia Pally

…cal, evangelizing) followers. Sigh. Biblical injunctions to help the needy number roughly two thousand, yet we do not ban the marriages of those who ignore them. I did not hear that Justice Moore—or Kim Davis—checks each marriage applicant’s record on these obligations and refuses marriage to transgressors. It seems our treatment of homosexuality indeed differs from our treatment of other biblical matters. Given that the Bible is not a string of d…

Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…for $20 million.” The whole thing demonstrates a kind of evil genius in a number of ways. First, because the $40 million that you’ve pocketed is actually money that you borrowed to buy the company. Second, meanwhile you’re charging the company millions of dollars in “management fees” (hence, I’m guessing, Sarkaty “Advisors”). And third, because ultimately it doesn’t matter if the company makes money, loses money or even goes bankrupt—you make you…

Jesus Wasn’t a “GodKlingon”; The Problem with Biblical Literalists

By Hollis Phelps

…esperate and fruitless,” and a waste of “countless hundreds of millions of dollars,” though his problem isn’t that we should be spending that money on other things of importance. Ham’s objections are theological: Life did not evolve but was specially created by God, as Genesis clearly teaches. Christians certainly shouldn’t expect alien life to be cropping up across the universe. The Bible, Ham notes, never mentions the existence of life anywhere…

Saudi Hypocrisy in Wahhabi “Disneyland”

By Reuven Firestone

…fy the conquest. The combination was a one-two punch that succeeded over a number of generations to subdue the diverse communities in the region and force them to comply with an austere and unusual form of Islam. Abdullah b. Abd al-Wahhab is the source of an attitude that, through the power of Saudi oil money, has become globalized among Muslim communities in much of the Muslim majority world and among many Muslims living also in the West. This at…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…afterword, informing readers that your father eventually made his million dollars and that your mother achieved a happy marriage with a Mormon man who was the husband she’d been looking for. It’s very satisfying to know that yours was not the only happy ending to emerge from the painful stories in the book. But can you tell us a little more about what your relationship is like with each parent? I love both of my parents and have a great relations…

100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…cially when it is directly supported by the federal government and our tax dollars—must be aligned with the Constitutional principle that all people deserve equal treatment under the law. Requiring all federal contractors to operate according to the same set of non-discriminatory hiring practices is more than fair; it is a critical safeguard that protects all parties. If contractors were allowed to selectively follow employment or other laws accor…

Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness

By jeff wilson

…doesn’t ask about his religious background either) has secured $1 million dollars from the federal government to bring mindfulness into Ohio schools in his district. If he asked for that money to teach the rosary to public school kids, would that really fly? Better to follow the lead of UMass researcher Judson Brewer, who tells Cooper that mindfulness is “just the next generation of exercise.” The mainstreaming of mindfulness is the real crux of…