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Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…to explain the bounty or harmony of the world around us. Given an infinite number of universes, a few of them are bound to be life-friendly at some point, and we’re in one of them. The problem, of course, is that the price of getting rid of God is an infinite number of universes we can’t see. So sober-minded contemporary scientists end up on the same side as (some) theologians in arguing that the multiverse is extravagant, unnecessary, and unscien…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ut a few distinct strands of liberal Christian thought into a Sweet Valley High-inspired, one-dimensional-U.S.-high-school pastiche, it would be like we had: Mrs. Ernestine Peck, the lady who directs the morning bus traffic. She is wealthy enough that she doesn’t need the income, but she does this out of the goodness of her heart because she thinks kids today—with their fancy phones and their Facespace-or-whatever-it’s-called—need to see someone l…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d other people the Chechen leadership deems “undesirable.” … Chechnya is a highly conservative majority-Muslim society and homosexuality is generally viewed as severely tainting family honor – an attitude fueled by high-level Chechen officials who have publicly condoned honor killings of gay and bisexual men. As “Magomed,” one of the purge victims, told Human Rights Watch, “They have long arms and they can find me and the others anywhere in Russia…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e pieces together? I grew up conservative Southern Baptist. My nickname in high school was “God Boy.” I was that really obnoxious kid with the Bible in his backpack ready to witness to everybody. Growing up, my understanding was that being gay was a choice and a sinful one. So, certainly I wasn’t gay because I would never choose something like that. It took me until I was 18 to acknowledge to myself that I was gay, but that was after years of turm…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…Texas as fully educated by the State and for the State. Then, if they have high grades and test scores, the intellectual capability, and the resources to attend higher education, they will matriculate and discover that they are both woefully unprepared and underqualified to enroll in their chosen academic program. This is because the educational mandates of the State of Texas have taken them on a trajectory antithetical not just broadly to the res…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…hat. Being in possession of an enlightened and humane consciousness is the highest value, the highest “achievement,” that we humans can experience. It is the supreme source of our personal power and happiness. Whether or not having more of our citizens possessed of such enlightened consciousness will make us more competitive with the Chinese or the Germans ought to be, at best, a secondary or tertiary consideration. We associate exultant affirmati…

The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks

By Kate Blanchard

…this week, including the President and First Lady, multiple staffers, and high-profile figures like Chris Christie (who’s still hospitalized as of this writing), few of us were surprised to hear Dr. Fauci designate the affair a “superspreader event.” As the nation’s Commander in Chief began exhibiting disease symptoms severe enough to warrant a hospital stay, he was taken to the hospital where he was given the best American health care money can…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…% today, down from 61% in 2018. Here, too, religious (non)affiliation is a highly significant factor. As the report notes: The same trend occurs across all religious groups, with white evangelical Protestants least supportive of either male (26%) or female (8%) transgender students participating in high school athletic events with cisgender students who share their gender identity. By contrast, members of other non-Christian religions (68% male tr…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bs in the United States. So obviously, it creates an anxiety for a certain number of gays.” A Foreign Policy story reported that, in spite of a public relations offensive distancing itself from its anti-Semitic and fascist-sympathizing past, the National Front, “at its highest levels, is awash with Hitler admirers and Holocaust-denying far-right nationalists, including within Marine Le Pen’s inner circle, who could well be poised to work at the Él…

Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included

By Andrew Aghapour

…ed children… out of his caseload,” which is why he refused to believe that high-functioning persons could be autistic. Kanner saw what he wanted to see and then called it objective. Neurotribes documents how selective, “pyramid” thinking has fostered a number of dangerous theories about autism. It tells the story of Bernard Rimland, a widely-read author who took up a comprehensive review of autism research in 1958 when his son was diagnosed with t…