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Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…f science itself,” Newton said. “Ironically, these right-wing deniers find common ground with extreme left-wing postmodernists, who deny textual meaning independent of a social context. These science deniers think that empirical experiments cannot have an independent, objective meaning outside of a social context, whether that be a “Darwinist” perspective or an “Al Gore” perspective. At the same time, intelligent design proponents have done no res…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…logy that could restore Zoe to the “real” world, the truth of his fall was undeniable. What’s Graystone’s real temptation? It’s too early to tell whether it’s scientific hubris, parental love, or the intrinsic entitlement of a super-rich genius. But the impact of Graystone’s fall on his wife, daughter, and society is the stuff of myth. The cost of obsession: Ben Starks’ obsession with the one true God caused the death of hundreds. If Clarice Willo…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…with extensive bibliography that includes authors such as Immanuel Wallerstein, Theda Skocpol, and Eric Hobsbawm; it recommends as a textbook Theorizing Revolution, a book written by my colleague at Santa Barbara, John Foran). It also includes theoretical and historical overviews of European history and political ideas, and an attempt to explain Muslim ideas and Islamic history; skewed in such a way to make it appear as if this major religious tra…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…tigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with 300 being incidences of pedophilia, and 600 priests defrocked in a ten-year period. These cases, according to Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, represented sexual abuse cases that had occurred over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, this is a very small percentage of the cases worldwide, in part because Scicluna states that between 1975 and 1985, “I do not believe that any cases…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…serve its public relevancy. In this case, that might mean the shift from seeing homosexual identity as a sin to regarding the practice of homosexuality as a sin – that nuance, however slight, provides some wiggle room that gives the group material to work with in crafting new rhetoric. What this shows, then, is that the real persuasive force of chaos rhetoric lies in knowing how to repeatedly rework an opponent’s identity so that they remain perpe…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…Evelyn Knapp are ordained. They take their ordinations very seriously and understand that it comes with certain commitments. According to the lawsuit, “The Knapps and Hitching Post, LLC cannot perform [same-sex wedding] ceremonies because they believe God created marriage to be a sacred covenant between one man and one woman. The Knapps also pledged to follow this belief in their ordination vows.” Their denomination, the Foursquare Gospel church,…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ive, as it may turn groups against each other.” Serbia: Orthodox Church Protests Upcoming Pride We reported last week that Serbian officials had made arrests in an attack on a German equality activist, and were making plans to allow this year’s Pride celebration to be held after having cancelled it for several years due to fears of violence. This week the country’s top religious leader slammed the event and its organizers. Patriarch Irinej, the he…

Texas Board of Education to Review Intelligent Design-Promoting Materials for Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…in an attempt to discredit modern biology * Distortions of the scientific understanding and evidence behind key biological processes, such as the modern synthetic theory of evolution and the stages of the cell cycle The board will vote on the submissions in July. It could decide not to adopt the creationist material – which is a possibility. Since last year’s election, several of the most conservative Christian board members have left, including…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…enfranchised women. In the history of religion, the divine is frequently found working in and through the lives of the common people, raising up leaders from humble beginnings, empowering women who were kept on the margins in patriarchal society, and modeling greatness not through domination but through solidarity and service. This insight is currently growing all around the world. In our book Occupy Religion, my colleague Pui Lan and I look at gl…

Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…uthor could still give vent to his forbidden rage, perhaps in the hope of being found out by the more “discriminating readers.” Alternatively, authors may simply be conflicted or unsure about certain points of their own belief and use fiction to work through vexing problems. Once again, this struggle may not be evident on the surface of the story or may not even be explicitly “intended” by the author. And this brings me back to Philip Pullman: My…