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Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…of astrological bodies—Jesus represents the sun, Sirius is the star in the east, and the stars in Orion’s belt are the three kings of the nativity. Jesus, in short, was just the latest in a long line of astral myths that use the movement of the stars as a source of mythic inspiration. Similarly, Moses is just another in a long line of law givers that includes Manu of India, Minos of Greece, and Mises of Egpyt. (See, they even all start with M, the…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…eared towards a Christian Zionist audience, the museum’s exhibits featured coded appeals to missionary activity and celebrations of “deathbed evangelism,” where missionaries target lonely, vulnerable and impoverished Holocaust survivors in order, as Nuszen put it, “to convert them to Christianity in their dying days or even last moments.” Christian Zionist antisemitism Evans’ brand of antisemitism, masked as philosemitism and enthusiastic support…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…from the King James Version: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1232503545120935936 It is not at all a bad thing if, alongside the full recognition of the dignity and equality of non-believers, the Democratic Party embraces leaders who find personal meaning in passages of the Bible associated with social justice Christianity, in sharp contrast to the…

Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?

By Richard Schiffman

…hasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.” It is easy to sympathize with the Dalai Lama’s frustration. After millennia of being preached at by priests an…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…concern for the overwhelming majority of Muslims. When I mentioned traveling the Muslim world, include in those itineraries American and European Muslims. It’s pretty much a non-practice. Until someone comes along and produces the Big Love of the Middle East; there are, after all, substantive differences. The four wives cannot be related. There cannot be more than four wives. And they must all be maintained at the same standard. So when it comes…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…slam” from all descriptions of terrorism. The Washington Institute of Near East Policy disagrees with the decision and claims that “radical Islamic extremists” can be identified as such “without denigrating Islamic religion in any way.” Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s On Faith blog has a forum of posts on both sides of the question, “What to call terrorists?” Church rating sites are making it easier for the pious to find a congregational match ma…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…nown tale is the Golem of Prague, in which a rabbi regretfully builds his beast out of clay to fight invading Christians. “The rabbi studied his creation…[but] he decided that the golem was more frightening than the Gentiles.” After the Gentiles march into the ghetto on Passover, however, beheading Jews and setting buildings on fire, the rabbi’s reservations are dispelled. The Golem had been necessary. This particular Golem story encapsulates the…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…traditionally varies according to the Tibetan lunar calendar, in order to promote tourism. Of the various policies implemented by Chinese governmental agencies in recent years two have been the greatest source of friction between the clergy and the government. The control of the number of monks and nuns in monastic institutions, and the implementation of “patriotic re-education.” Since it is largely these policies that have brought the clergy int…

Until the World Laughs with God

By Nathan Schneider

…laimed in Time. He attributes to Myers “the most profound understanding of Eastern wisdom, traditions and spirituality,” and beneath all the lampooning, “on a deeper level, it’s a tribute.” Chopra goes on to label Zed’s protest as “a cry for importance” and “a sign of deep insecurity.” Even his son, Gotham Chopra, has declared his allegiance to Pitka. The same month as The Love Guru’s release, Chopra came out with a book of his own, Wh…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…those who work in the streets.” They also claimed, he said, that his blog promoted homosexuality and promiscuity when in fact it defended equal rights. “How can someone just read a blog post and become gay?” he quipped. However, the focus of the charges, he said, was the allegation that he had declared himself God. In fact, he says, he had been reflecting on a notion of the tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr al-Husain ibn Mansur, or al-Hallaj…