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Faith in the Future is No Faith at All: Disney’s Weak Theology

By Scott MacDougall

…It causes us to address suffering and injustice where we find it because that’s what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves. Unlike holding out for a hero, this hope charges us all with taking on that responsibility. The exceptionalism of American-style individualism has no place in eschatological hope, which is held in common for the common good by the common disciple. And this hope is justified even when optimism fails, because it does not…

Trump’s DOJ Wants Constitutional Protection for Wedding Cakes, Not LGBT People

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who specializes in “religious freedom” and civil rights, told RD that the DOJ’s brief is par for the course of an administration that started its tenure by rescinding Title IX protections for transgender students, then went on to claim that federal laws against sex discrimination in the workplace (namely, Title VII) don’t apply to gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. “This is one part of the Administratio…

Image of Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria's deputy premier speaking at a podium.

Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…y and personally. A negative image of me has been painted in recent days. That is not me, that is not Hubert Aiwanger.” Instead, Aiwanger presents himself as the victim of a conspiracy: “I am convinced that the ‘SZ’, possibly with the help of other circles, had planned for a long time to damage me massively and to destroy me politically. This was intended to weaken the Free Voters and steer votes to other parties,” he says in an interview with the…

Shari’ah (Panic) Threatens the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ry to try in regular proceedings. Guess who said this, last November, and what that person was talking about: [I]n fact we are looking at a mortal threat to the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States by its own terms, and the freedoms that we hold dear that are guaranteed by it. . . I’ll finish the sentence to make the guessing a little easier: “. . . if we accept the insinuation and ultimately the adoption of shari’ah in t…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…for religious purposes (to hold a ceremony, for example), one might think that what it’s really asking is to suspend the government’s property rights in order to protect Native religion. But if this is how the issue is framed—as a competition between property rights and religious rights—we can expect the Native claimants to lose, because in liberal political discourse, property is the paradigmatic right and land is the paradigmatic property. One m…

Beck’s Distortions Of It’s A Wonderful Life Mirror His Distortions Of Current Events

By Lauri Lebo

…f socialism—the government controlling business—as opposed to the reality that the big banks got a free regulatory ride for so long, and that their political power is so vast, that the government had to bail them out to save the world economy from collapse, leaving the consumers ripped off and taxpayers footing the bill. Similarly, Beck asserts that Mr. Potter was evil, not because he was a greedy bigwig, but because he was in collusion with the g…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…New Money System 666 (1982), popularized the idea that the Uniform Product Codes (i.e. UPCs or barcodes) were the mark of the beast and would one day be tattooed on human bodies. A trend of ironic barcode tattoos popular in the early twentieth century nods to this idea while commenting on western consumerism. Microchip technology has since replaced the UPC as the most likely candidate for the introduction of a cashless society and thus the mark of…

David Brat, Theological Conundrum

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker and Bridget O'Brien

…” doesn’t compel it to try and take sole responsibility for social order. That frees up room for a state as such, and with that, the room for scientific inquiry. We wonder whether Brat’s seeming affiliation with the Catholic Church reflects a rethinking of his view that Protestant Christianity is necessary for the existence of an independent scientific sphere or a rethinking of the value of autonomous science. If Brat means to identify as a Cathol…

Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ish the meaning of Free Exercise Clause, move advocates for separation of church and state, including its funds, from the offensive to the defensive, and reify a culture of selective religious freedom that says, ‘You can do what you want, treat women and LGBTQI people as poorly as you wish, as long as you do it under the name of your Christian God.’”…

The Irony in the “Religious Liberty” Argument

By Eric C. Miller

…lowed suit, and both schools continue to reject federal money to this day. Free to run their organizations as they see fit, they are also free from government dependence. Even if you disagree on the particulars, you have to respect the consistency. These days, there is reason for skepticism whenever “religious liberty” clamors to the fore. Researchers have found, unsurprisingly, that frames touting liberties and rights serve as rhetorical veils, a…