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With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

…mething. And so that’s a big deal.” – Miles O’Brien, PBS NewsHour, June 27, 2021 On June 25, 2021 the U.S. government, under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, released a report of UAP sightings by pilots and military personnel. The report, according to journalists like O’Brien and others, creates a safe space within which to discuss matters related to the sightings of UFOs and UAPs (they also informed the public that the term UF…

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Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr

…he Extraordinary Form on Thursday, August 5th. At the last Mass on July 30, 2021, which is available to view on YouTube, neither Burke nor any of his concelebrants was wearing a mask. It was sometime during this period of time that Burke contracted Covid-19. The news that he was ailing was met with a great deal of schadenfreude on social media with some expressing hope for his death. Sarcastic promises of “thoughts and prayers” abounded, as did mo…

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Strange Bedfellows: The American Far-Right and Today’s Jihad Do Have Something in Common — Just Not What You Think

…clearly reflected the extent to which the world of the new far right is an online and digitally mediated one. But it also registered something elemental about the way in which such movements position themselves in opposition to “establishment” forces, who are continually pulling the wool over your eyes. “Where should we look to find the truth?,” as a post on the Oath Keepers website asked in April 2021. “There are some places not to look, such as…

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A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

…o run a global child sex trafficking operation.” Things grew complicated in 2021 as the vaccine became widely available. The leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest branch of Mormonism, acted quickly during the pandemic to close temples and offer guidelines for Church meetings, including social distancing and masks. In addition, they encouraged vaccines, referring to the medical technology as a “literal godsend.”…

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A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

…Is Good for American Democracy Robert Wuthnow Princeton U. Press September, 2021 Wuthow’s line is that too many other scholars have mistakenly believed that religion’s importance for democratic thriving comes from its ability to bring us together. He argues instead that benefits flow from what he calls the “agonistic pluralism” that characterizes religion on these shores—i.e. from the variety of sects and traditions and points of view on public is…

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North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks

…ized in the California textbook controversies of 2005 and 2016-17. In both instances, Hindu Right groups based in the United States attempted to pressure California’s Curriculum Commission to whitewash aspects of South Asian history in school textbooks, including by eliminating references to caste-based discrimination and patriarchy. Both campaigns utilized arguments well-established in US discourse by white supremacists. For instance, just as whi…

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“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

…election fraud. (For those more professionally inclined, they recommend an online course produced by former Rep. Bill Redmond (R-NM), a former top official of Citizen Link, now called the Family Policy Alliance). One session featured Jeff Johnston, a culture and policy analyst at the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, whose presentation was titled, “LGBT Agenda in the Public Schools, and What We Can Do About It.” Other featured speakers i…

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Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

…ected to parishes, to keep their phones open. At their last meeting in June 2021, the US Catholic Bishops did not discuss the Synod at all, even though they knew it was scheduled to start four months later. They’ve set aside a full forty-five minutes on the agenda of their November 2021 meeting to discuss what’s promoted as the most life-changing process for the Catholic community worldwide since Vatican II. There is a deep disconnect here between…

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What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

…(Cracked.com has a humorous summary of the entire series here.) The latest installment, We The People, was released on October 4, 2021 to a limited theater audience and on October 22, 2021 to streaming via Pure Flix. The movie was a flop. While evangelical movie review sites like Plugged In claim that it “provokes believers to ask some critically important questions,” even they criticize the caricatures of liberals and progressives, calling the mo…

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Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

…uary 6 uprising on the U.S. capital are now discovering. As of mid-November 2021 there were 650 cases being brought to the courts. Some have already resulted in sentences of multiple years in prison. Today, in fact, the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, who famously ranted from the podium in the US Capitol Senate chambers, was sentenced to 41 months in prison. These court cases are chilling reminders that armed insurrection against the US government…

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