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Jesus Loses His Freak: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 4

By Mark Dery

…r hero in part 4 of Mark Dery’s personal essay-cum-cultural critique. Read all available installments here, or better yet, never miss another feature by signing up for the RD Daily Newsletter here. You’ll receive our features and blogs every day in your inbox. • But as I delved deeper into scripture with my bible-study group, I found myself nagged by the awful doubt that while Christ was cool, Christianity wasn’t. I’d always had issues with the Fa…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…ore heading off to university. For US students, declaring a major is a ritual almost as recognizably undergraduate as, say joining a fraternity, supporting sports teams or, these days, engaging in community service even when not forced to do so by the legal system. Indeed, there are books on choosing your major, Web sites filled with advice, and even quizzes to take online to figure out what major would be best for you. Postmodernism as Gateway Dr…

God Grows Up: Robert Wright’s Evolution of God

By Robert Wright

…st, willing to compromise on theological issues in order to build a political coalition. Apparently he even flirted with polytheism at one point. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Two audiences, actually. I wanted the book to be accessible to a lay audience but also of interest to a scholarly audience. There’s tension between the two goals, and I still second-guess myself over whole chapters that I left out or left in. Are you…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…Balizet’s claims, based in Pentecostal Word-Faith theology, that all physical ills have spiritual origins. She taught that difficult and painful labors were potentially due to disagreements between the parents over child discipline, while perfect childbirths were the result of proper spiritual preparation. She reportedly has walked out on women in labor on receipt of a prophetic message from God that Satan was deceitfully creating the impression o…

True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

…r somehow deserves to be deceived. While this worldview has strong rhetorical value, we know that few people actually subscribe to it. According to a recent Pew Forum survey, 79% of Americans “mostly or completely” believe in the reality of miracles. 68% mostly or completely believe that angels and demons are active in the world. Popular or extra-ecclesiastical beliefs, such as the idea that certain people require blood or energy to sustain their…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…in parts of the Arab world. Though the Marxist option is dead as a political paradigm, suggestive remnants of the philosophy and its opiate theories still do their work to some degree. My atheist kin remain, in my view, hamstrung by carefully-worded tautologies of old Soviet vintage that once tried to promote national atheism through argument-manufacturing—not to mention demolition, near genocide, and terror. (The results of atheo-fascism on such…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…here. Panel 3: More background on WINEP here (a little out of date, but still relevant). Also for more about the Brookings Institute go here. Panel 4: Quote taken from a New York Times article. Panel 5: More on Freedom’s Watch here. For coverage of the story from the Times go here. Panel 6: Watch FW videos here. Panel 7: Adelson’s financial status in 2007, can be found here. Quote from the Forward. Panel 8: Quote from the Dutch documentary progra…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ices that tend to be higher than those of their competitors, Amway saw global sales revenue top $7.1 billion in its 2007 financial year. The company predicts another $1 billion increase this year. And most of its recent growth, in such developing Asian markets as China, India, and Russia, has been under the Amway name.” Despite hiring marketing executives to help revitalize the relaunch—and despite the fact that an FTC examination into Amway’s bus…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…ome from the keyboards over at Lou Sheldon’s shop, the long-lived Traditional Values Coalition. So here’s a troika of recent stories from the TVC : “Obamunist Nominee Gave U.S. Port To Communists”—How Leon Panetta, Obama’s appointee to head the CIA, “is the greatest gift Obama could give to Islamic terrorists around the globe”; “‘Czars And The Obama Administration”—“These czars will be accountable to him alone and no one knows precisely how much p…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…ch longtime religious right organizations—including Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition and Rev. Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association—have their druthers, one of next year’s top stories may be indeed be titled “The Role of the Religious Right in Undermining the Administration of President Barack Obama.” The editors of Americans United’s Church & State magazine pointed out that: Not since 1960 when John F. Kennedy the first Roman Cat…