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Pop Star Ke$ha Punks Westboro Baptist Church

By Evan Derkacz

The Westboro Baptist Church’s latest hijinks took them to Lincoln, Nebraska this past Sunday to protest Ke$ha’s Warrior Tour and to “[pray] for the curses of baldness, burning & stink” to fall upon the pop star (and ordained minister) who’s made no secret of being bisexual, in favor of same sex marriage, and “a huge fan of the transgender community.” But as the WBC belted out its parody of Kesha’s gay anthem “We R Who We R,” a trio of her backup…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd arguments with a straight face, but actually insists that belief in the absurdity of the nation’s fundamental fiscal health is a central tenet of the true faith: patriotism. To expr…

Off That (Rationalist Anthem)

By Lauri Lebo

Here’s the latest provocative hip-hop video from self-described rap troubadour Baba Brinkman in which he blasts pseudo-science and irrationality. A Chaucer scholar who started out rapping the Canterbury Tales, lately he’s been branching out into the world of science and religion. In 2008, the Vancouver artist developed the utterly brilliant Rap Guide to Evolution. I met him last year while he and I were on a tour in the U.K. in celebration of the…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…Textiles at the Nevada State Museum, advised Burners looking to sport the latest trend: “boots are in; wings, stilts, crinolines, and ballet tutus are in; nudity and body paint are in; utili kilts are popular, as is wearing underwear as outerwear.” At Burning Man, bodies become works of art alongside giant sculptures and temples adorned with repurposed objects. All of these visual cues work together to signal to Burners that they have entered a r…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

The results of an online survey published in the latest issue of Skeptic Magazine show that atheists in America fear paying a high social price in coming out as a non-believer. “The Stigma of Being an Atheist: An Empirical Study on the New Atheist Movement and its Consequences,” written by Tom Arcaro, was based on the results of 8,200 people who identify as atheists or non-believers in God. The survey, “Coming Out as an Atheist,” was posted live…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…ism. And, while Christians grapple to find their notion of the soul in the latest neuroscience, metaphysicals (together with the Dalai Lama) can’t get enough of it. Fortunately, we don’t have to choose. Science as a way of living doesn’t depend utterly on theology. An evangelical can map the human genome, an atheist can unravel the big bang, and a Buddhist can be twice as likely to become a scientist than the average American. In any case a theolo…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on the Fox site are vowing to boycott Google in favor of Bing, Microsoft’s latest venture into the search engine business. They might want to rethink that move, too, since Microsoft was one of the first companies to include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policies and actually offers “partial coverage for transgender surgery (effective in 2006) to its existing coverage of other transgender-specific health benefits.” In the words of Ho…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…mory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your iPhone to tweet the latest execution news, like the Utah Attorney General. But for others the internet is a place for anti-religious rage. Over at the Huffington Post, they have debuted a new discussion between religion and science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science continues to seek dialogue between science and religion. University of Colorado psychologist Tor D. Wag…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ntly rehabilitated modern scientists. Viewed this way, it would be but the latest intervention in one of the premier slugfests of modernity, the sandlot struggle between “religion and science.” But these volumes are a part of the culture of the Library, and therefore far less interested in slugfest or point-scoring. To view them strictly within the armature of the Church would be to misrepresent their stated purpose, or purposes, ones that are far…

My God is Bigger Than Your God

By The Editors

…In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Hussein Rashid talks with Rabbi and RD contributor Benjamin Weiner about whether Muslims and Jews worship the same God, about monotheism, and about the poverty of the American religious vocabulary. Watch it here:…