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The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

…ymbol and as a place that welcomed (according to the most frequently cited number) 13 million visitors a year, Notre Dame is part of shared heritage, a link to the medieval past lying improbably at the heart of the world’s first great modern city. Right away, donors opened their checkbooks. In barely a day, nearly a billion dollars had been pledged. But the relief effort raised obvious questions. In a nation roiled by violent protests against econ…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ow of the existence of the Saviour of the world, we can say: “Here are the dollars of the greatest nation on earth, one that does not put its trust in floating navies or in marching armies, but places its trust in God.” Congress added the phrase to paper currency five decades later. A “compelling reason” for doing so was to spread the Gospel “behind the Iron Curtain,” as one Congressman put it. The national motto is not an expression of national s…

Whistleblower Alleges $100B Hoarding Scandal by LDS Church; But There’s An Easy Fix

By Andrew L. Seidel

…al transparency across all nonprofits, religious or not, would have protected American taxpayers from the Mormon Church’s alleged abuse of the tax exemption privilege without a whistleblower. We would have seen the LDS church transfer a billion dollars every year to Ensign and seen Ensign spend nothing on charitable endeavours. It’s time for Congress to step in and protect the American taxpayer. It’s time for Congress to demand that all nonprofits…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…, like The Bible and A.D. The Bible Continues, and are raising millions of dollars to start a conservative Christian network through MGM. As the producer of The Apprentice, Burnett is the architect of Trump’s celebrity and is presently planning a new show with the president. Messiah’s creator, Michael Petroni, also has a record of working on Christian programs like Miracles, The Rite, and the third installment of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia….

A Shame-Positive Case for Keeping the Heat on Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…rsonal interests? Bo-ring. Examinations of the ways Trump is funneling tax dollars to himself and his family? Eh, not interested. Probes into which corporations are wielding influence in the administration and what they’re getting out of the deal? Nah. Finally getting Trump’s tax returns so we can see what sort of financial misbehavior he may be working so hard to conceal? Maybe someday, but not now. Instead, we hear that Dem leadership is eager t…

Should Biden Reach Out to White Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…ltibillion-dollar bailout aimed at shoring up the economy sent millions of dollars to tax-exempt churches and tax-exempt religious schools. If public money can float a religious institution’s payroll, it can be used to pay for abortions. Biden won’t touch that, of course, nor should he. But the question remains: Will reaching out to WEPs, thus making them “feel like the Democratic nominee was interested in their vote,” as Wear said, result in an e…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…ations they fund in countries like Uganda, he said. Millions in HIV-relief dollars have gone to at least one organization that campaigned for Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was signed into law last month and provides for sentences of up to life in jail for people caught engaging in gay sex. It also essentially bans LGBT rights advocacy. Loures said donors should be guided by in-country LGBT movements. “In Uganda today, in Nigeria today, yo…

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

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ng event in Sedona cost each participant more than $9,000. A search of any number of Web sites advertising these “Indian ceremonies” will turn up sweat lodges that average over $100 per event, and four-day “vision quests” going for around five hundred dollars, “all meals included” and “Visa and MasterCard accepted.” Indians all across the country are upset, saying white people stole the land, killed the buffalo, and now want to steal the religion….

Climate Change is a Sin—Here’s How to Repent For It

By Jay Michaelson

…ly is perhaps the most challenging case of all, because of the billions of dollars that have been spent to lie to Americans over the last twenty years. As I’ve explored elsewhere, there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy to lie about climate change, and it has worked. Half of Americans don’t “believe” that climate change is real, despite a 99.5% (!) scientific consensus—with the .5% being, unsurprisingly, scientists in the employment of indust…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…and Afghanistan, will manage to be exempt from their ire. The billions of dollars spent every month on the two wars (and over 270 American military bases around the world) are somehow not a sign of “big government” for the Tea Party faithful. Late last month, in a trenchant article for The Nation, Princeton lecturer Melissa Harris-Perry sought to explain why many of her students (and her eight-year-old daughter) found Sarah Palin so compelling a…