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Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…are subject to evolution, too. It’s possible that natural selection has encoded different behavior patterns in men and women. These differences could show up in proclivities toward certain behaviors. I say possible with a key reservation: even if these proclivities were there, we’d probably be terribly equipped to discern them. There’s no question that male and female roles are deeply conditioned by culture, by physical differences, and by power—…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…synagogue. They posited that each individual was endowed with the right to freedom or autonomy in his place of worship: one could, and should, be taught, consoled and exhorted by a priest, pastor or rabbi, yet not coerced in any manner. Toleration in church was to be the basis for toleration in society. Respect for the individual believer would foster respect for all believers. For the religious enlighteners “natural religion” was just a starting…

Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…ruption altogether, promising an entirely new form of metapolitical purity freed of any whiff of dissent or competition. In this, it is founded on perhaps the biggest lie of all: that an anti-politician asserting his authenticity and integrity can sweep the slate clean and return us to the days of lost greatness. The second difference between Clinton’s and Trump’s approach to mendacity deals with the very nature of lying itself. The fundamental st…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…xtreme forms of Christian nationalism. And so the narrative that the media spins, and even some evangelicals, is to classify everybody in the same category, including yours truly.” Panelist Michael Brown said that, while they don’t deny that “abuses” and “aberrations” occur, they want to “burst the bubble of this fictitious NAR conspiracy”—by which he may be referring to the aggressive religious and political ambitions and activities described by…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…neutron brain-bombs that destroy voters’ judgment. Then hope the shrapnel spins your way. But I am pulled harder in the opposite direction. Something huge, something besides campaign gamesmanship, is at stake this year. I have always been buoyed by a persistent, optimistic faith in human goodness, the result not of will or practice but of some tendency of temperament I can’t seem to escape even when I want to. I have, in the past, used my anger a…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…le people and communities have been infected.” For people who remember the Sandinista Revolution of 1979, the government’s current policies are particularly disappointing. “I came here in the 1980s to work with Christian Base Communities after the Revolution,” Edward says. “The Sandinistas changed, largely due to the influence of Ortega himself and his family. I believe Ortega was well-intentioned as a revolutionary, but once he came back into pow…

Sacred&Profane: The Sacred Pelvis

By Gary Laderman

…till to this day wonder if perhaps the King lives among us, undetected but free from the prisons that were surrounding him as his popularity soared, crashed, and burned. Dead or not dead, this year’s anniversary for Elvis, like years past, will include vigils and markets, testimonials and memorabilia, pilgrims and consumers, and other cultural evidence signaling spiritual fecundity as much as commercial vitality. Elvis Presley Enterprises grand ce…

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists

By Lauri Lebo

…lame on the shooting on the left. Sarah has an earlier post on some of the spins Special Guest is promoting here. Today, the booking site is promoting Ted Shoebat, who says that being an atheist leads one to commit mass murder. “It’s actually very simple,” Shoebat was quoted in Special Guest’s promotion, “When God is not in your life, evil will seek to fill the void.” And who is Shoebat? As Sarah wrote in a post in August: …(He) is the son of “ex-…

Why Dylann Roof Acted on His Racism

By Joseph Laycock

…untry was “lost” or what taking it back would actually mean, this rhetoric spins a narrative of a fallen nation as well as a prophecy of a redeemed and perfected one. It is precisely the troubled loners—those who find nothing of value in the present order—who become the most invested in these prophecies. Scholars who study apocalyptic movements long have noted that radical political movements such as Marxism and Nazism are founded on prophecies of…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…tattoo artist. The filthy, mercury-riddled room becomes, temporarily, “the sanctuary” just as the tattoo needles serve as “reliquaries.” The producers of S-Town gained access to video footage of this “church” in session, audio of which is played, a buzz and a moaning, a shifting register of agony-to-ecstasy in the voice of the man being pierced. The tattoo artist speculates, for the show, that McLemore experienced “an endorphin high,” “a pain fix,…