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Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters

By Randall Balmer

…Howe) in his unsuccessful bid to be the Republican nominee for governor of South Dakota [See Mark Bergen’s earlier post here —Eds.]. According to his Web site, Howie is a realtor and “The Tea Party Republican” candidate for governor. His positions appear to be boilerplate hard-right conservative (guns, “pro-life,” “traditional values”), although if his mode of governing in any way resembles his dysfunctional Web site, the people of South Dakota wo…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…of his publications was a firestorm of criticism by Muslims writing in the South Asian press against his views, with the result that Western Orientalist scholarship about Muhammad and Islam became synonymous with the colonial domination of South Asians under the British Raj and of Muslims everywhere. In September, 1988, the novelist and Emory University professor, Salman Rushdie, published the well-known novel, Satanic Verses, a term first coined…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…s, Three Shots at Ending or Limiting Abortion Rights Ballot initiatives in South Dakota, Colorado and California threaten to end or limit abortion rights. In South Dakota, anti-abortion activists have resuscitated a measure than failed to pass two years ago, by softening the language in the initiative, “includ[ing] language purporting to make exceptions for incest, rape or the life and health of the mother,” a recent New York Times editorial point…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…r, Pat Robertson, Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, and Rev. John Hagee—“who never backed Huckabee, despite their holding similar stances on social issues—are spared neither the rod nor the lash.” Of a meeting with Bauer: “It was like playing Whac-a-Mole at the arcade—whatever issue I addressed, another one surfaced as a ‘problem’ that made my candidacy unacceptable.” The real threat to the GOP, according to…

Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

By Hussein Rashid

…10% Muslim. Even if Pakistan and Bangladesh are counted as part of larger South Asia, only 1/3 of the population is Muslim, spread through the north, the center, and the south. There is no universally recognized command to convert and/or kill. 3. Muslims do not condemn terrorism. Part of moving beyond this simplistic idea of Muslims is to move beyond simplistic pronouncements. Muslims are constantly condemning the violent acts committed in the na…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…tly runs into creationists training to be educators. “It’s not only in the South, or in rural areas,” Wiles said. Wiles recently held a workshop for 30 science teachers in the Syracuse city school system. Three of the teachers were actively interested in promoting intelligent design. He suspects that the reason that so few cases make it to the public stage is that many parents aren’t always aware of what’s going on in the classroom. Also, children…

RDBook: Darwin and Slavery

By Arri Eisen

…our text. My mother was part of a group of women—a Jew, a Catholic, and an African American—that toured high schools to talk on race and religion and allow the students to meet people who were not like themselves, in many cases for the first time. These are the type of experiences that shaped me, that shape all Southerners. In Sacred Cause Desmond and Moore argue, with overwhelming evidence, that Darwin, too, was immersed in issues of race from th…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…politics, not your politics directing your faith.” What an idea! And from South Bend, Indiana, some equally unexpected news. The University of Notre Dame recently announced that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address this May, and will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. Unsurprisingly, the announcement was greeted with protests from conservative Catholics who object to Obama’s pro-choice position on abortion and t…

New Age Tragedy in Sedona: Non-Indians in the Sweat Lodge

By Johnny P. Flynn

…eat ceremony were used by Indians from Canada into southern Mexico. In the south they’re called temescals and resemble a wet sauna or steam room; tribes in the American Southwest have dry sweats that feature heated rocks but no water, or a fire built inside the sweat with a smoke hole in the center of the lodge. The version that Ray and his followers used in Sedona is considered Plains style, where rocks are heated to glowing in a fire outside and…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…their family. When broken down in by region in the U.S., those who live in Southern states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee (and North Dakota) reported the highest fear of social stigma. States such as California, Washington, New York, and New England states reported the least. (Unfortunately, the article is not available online.) I can’t say I’m really all that surprised at the results. If anyone needs ane…