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All Of A Sudden, There’s Nazis Everywhere… And They Only Seem to Associate with One Party

By Daniel Schultz

…upted over this behavior, Nehlen responded by posting the names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of some of his critics. Nehlen’s so reviled that even Steve Bannon’s Breitbart has disavowed him, though no less accomplished a racist than Donald Trump himself praised Nehlen during the primary. Nehlen won’t come anywhere near unseating Ryan, of course, but that doesn’t mean the WisGOP—which appears not to have made any recent statements disavo…

A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

By Peter Laarman

…-owning Southern whites ultimately became the most violent of all, but due credit for creating the concept of heavily-armed freewheeling “rangers” belongs to the pious Puritans who first used unlimited slaughter and scorched-earth guerrilla tactics in the so-called “King Philip’s War” of 1676-77; Colonists both north and south were required to be armed and available for marauding duty in these irregular militias; before there even was such a thing…

A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…ls, such as economic inequality and radicalized policing.” Bernard, to his credit, left Trump’s religious advisory council in the wake of white nationalist violence in Charlottesville. And World Relief vice president Jenny Yang will also be there to push for a cleaner separation between America’s Problem Child and the evangelical movement. Yet somehow these prophets continue to go unheard (it’s hard when you’re outvoted by 50 points), or find them…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…humanity, it has only begun to permeate modern theology. Teilhard, to his credit, was one of the first to seriously consider this scientific idea. His considerations, however, were founded upon layers of bias against persons of various ethnic backgrounds, a patent disregard for the limits of science, and a disregard for the weakest and poorest among humanity. But first, let’s be clear: before World War II, much of the Western World was, what most…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…humanity, it has only begun to permeate modern theology. Teilhard, to his credit, was one of the first to seriously consider this scientific idea. His considerations, however, were founded upon layers of bias against persons of various ethnic backgrounds, a patent disregard for the limits of science, and a disregard for the weakest and poorest among humanity. But first, let’s be clear: before World War II, much of the Western World was, what most…

Author Responds to Criticism of Teilhard Eugenics Essay

By John P. Slattery

…ust hold theologians and pastors to the highest of historical bars. To his credit, there is no evidence of Teilhard actively participating in eugenical experiments, and no evidence of him actively supporting a specific eugenical implementation, but it is clear that his support for racial and personal eugenics remained steadfast over the course of decades. Indeed, as I write in the original article, Teilhard persisted in these views despite the sho…

Electability of Biden is More ‘Conventional’—and Less ‘Wisdom’

By Branko Marcetic

…tor from MBNA” who made bankruptcy harder for middle-class families at the credit card industry’s request, or his friendliness with wealthy financiers like disgraced savings-and-loan executive David L. Paul. He will hammer on Biden’s support for NAFTA and the TPP every chance he gets. Same with Biden’s long, well-documented history of trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, something Trump ran against in 2016, and which he has so far avoided d…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…tive ignores the changing culture and the reality that a not-insignificant number of Democratic voters aren’t affiliated with any particular faith. It’s as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the In God We Trust issue. There’s a reason Schlitz Gusto is a niche brew, people. Tastes change, and so do politics. There are subtler issues as well. As I said above, the hook here isn’t bad. When I lived in this distr…

World Meeting of Families Again Positions Queer Catholics as Children

By Ashley O'Mara

…e queer Catholics whom he has come to speak on behalf of. He deserves some credit for using his privileged position as a respected Jesuit in order to start conversations about queer sexuality that were previously taboo in the Church. Of course the Vatican allows him to speak about us only because he’s an ostensibly straight priest—emphasis on straight—and thus fits a pattern of who’s given authority in the Church, and who’s deprived of it. The Vat…

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

By Holly Welker

…uired in order to get a temple recommend, a small card about the size of a credit card certifying that its possessor is worthy to enter the temple. Furthermore, if someone commits a sin that violates their temple covenants, they’re expected to go to the bishop immediately and confess their sins. If the sins confessed to are serious enough, the bishop can convene what the church likes to call a “court of love,” an ecclesiastical disciplinary counci…