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Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…exercises in deception. The prevailing frame of the ideal voter as middle class and the excessive attention given to our presidential candidates’ tax returns (or lack thereof) and Goldman Sachs speaking fees have obscured more pivotal realities on the other side of the asset and income scale: there is a class of citizens and residents who endure taxation without effective political representation. Neither candidate, for example, has a major platf…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…. Then there was the king daddy of them all: Father Cavanaugh’s philosophy class. He took us through all the well-worn arguments for the existence of God: the ontological, the cosmological, the teleological. Also arguments against the existence of any God, given the wretched state of affairs down here on planet Earth, who could simultaneously be omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving. I don’t remember the details. What I do remember are his ques…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…who had hitherto remained comparatively pure between the open vices of the class above and the hidden crimes of the class below them. The pernicious love of gambling diffused itself throughout society… “The pernicious love of gambling”—the main symptom of a pervasive “moral epidemic.” Isn’t that the dirty secret lying at the heart of every Ponzi scheme? Why did people clamor to be part of Madoff’s investments? Why did people clamor for pieces of J…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…ampaign of fear. He perfected Joe-the-Plumber politics of racial division, class bitterness, and the valorization of ignorance. It was as if the ruling class decided that the public was too inspired. A hopeful and energized populace was unruly and hard to control. We had, I guess, been a little rebellious, though never so dangerously out-of-control as a Nixon Flu-infected media still likes to pretend. Not long after our first trips to the Moon, Am…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e and not just “black” people. Sherrod told the story of helping a working class white farmer save his farm. Memories of her father’s still-unsolved racial murder and legacies of racial injustice against African Americans, she said, initially made her hesitant to put full efforts behind white farmers Roger and Eloise Spooner when they approached her for help. However, when the white attorney to whom Sherrod referred the Spooners failed to take the…

Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…s would only just stand up for working-class white men and forget all this business about being the party of defending women’s right to control their own bodies and racial minorities not to be second-class citizens, they could draw a lot of support from Republican-leaning voters. A lot. Except, no, not even that daffy logic works. Here’s why, in two charts: You might be able to make an argument that part of the “change” voters said they wanted to…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…est-educated and most “civilized” ranks of a sophisticated secular medical class not too different from the academic class Singer himself belongs to. Atheists say that morality isn’t derived only from religion. I think they’re right. But they seem to have problems when deciding the limits of what is permissible under the rules of their “invented vocabulary” of morality à la Rorty and Singer. Maybe the point is that religion is derived from moralit…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…cordingly. Project Blitz’s goal is to favor Christians, creating a special class, while relegating everyone else to, at best, second-class status. Emblazoning In God We Trust in public schools furthers that goal. The new laws in most of these states mirror the model bill in the Project Blitz handbook. The laws are not so much a camel’s nose under the tent, as they are tethering the camel inside the tent and expecting other people’s children to wor…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…ores lived religion in much the same way the teachers might do it in their classrooms: by inviting people into the classroom to speak about their faiths, and by visiting local sites that are important to faith communities—all the while focused on keeping to an academic, “outsider” (and not devotional, “insider”) perspective. To those of who report on religion and its role in society and culture, it seems clear that a solid education should include…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…cceptable, the idea that an evil cabal was secretly exploiting the working class majority with equal parts financial schemes and social liberalism became a key pillar of the right-wing appeal to blue collar interests. During the 1960s, while figures like William F. Buckley were celebrated for allegedly expelling antisemites from the Conservative Movement, scholars like John S. Huntington and David Austin Walsh have shown that antisemitism was alwa…