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Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…attacks in the United States in recent years. Before Boston, there was the December 2012 Newtown massacre by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School; the July 2012 movie theater shootings by James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado; the August 2012 attack on the Milwaukee Sikh Gurdwara by Wade Michael Page; the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad; and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph, to name a few. Some of t…

Federal Panel Upholds DC Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rpreted DC law when they made their decision to legalize gay marriage last December. Reaction from the religious right was typical—they don’t see a problem with the voting on other people’s rights, and judges who prohibit such a thing are “activist” judges. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America opined to One News Now: “We’re extremely disappointed that the judges don’t understand this fundamental principle of our republic form of…

Apocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n’s Helmand Province when President Barack Obama signed the repeal in late December. He said he addressed some 12,000 Marines about the change and “everyone said, ‘Sir, we got it. We’re going to do this thing.’” Military chaplains also went ballistic over the repeal, saying their “religious freedom” would be violated by having to care for gay and lesbian soldiers. They too predicted that the chaplain corps would be reduced to nothing as chaplains…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…to these claims. Things continued to fragment. A few weeks later, TST-Portland left TST to become Satanic Portland. TST-Dallas dissolved and TST-New York lost most of its members. Some of the chapter leaders who left are planning a new network for Satanic activists where they may have more autonomy. One ex-member compared the situation to a band that changes its style until it finally breaks up. Those who stayed felt the organization now has a cl…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he book depicts the forces of Israel as unstoppable, steamrolling over the land of promise. This is when the simple trumpeting of rams’ horns brings down the storied walls of Jericho. The massacres inevitably follow. But in the second half of the book of Joshua (the change comes quite suddenly, in chapter 13), we discover that the twelve tribes were unable to complete the conquest, and were unable to eliminate the indigenous peoples from the land….

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…ly made up of speakers of Spanish, Tagalog, and multiple Asian and African languages. Yes, at one point Latin was a universal language in the church. But that point is long gone. If “Make America Great Again” was based on a return to a glorious but largely mythological past, “Make the Mass Latin Again” is likewise a callback to a mythological past of Catholicism. There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…converted it into sugar and molasses died of horrific abuse in staggering numbers. These islands were perpetually hungry for more flesh. New arrivals, coming from North America in chains, were always welcome, and the grandee planters paid handsomely. But routinely selling captured natives to the islands was just the beginning for the North American settlers. The long-lived Roger Williams was barely in his grave before his Rhode Island colony was…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of same-sex relationships. (David Gushee, a leading evangelical ethicist, plans to publicly announce his support of LGBT relationships at the event.) [See Sarah Posner’s article on Gushee’s change of heart.] And in January, the Gay Christian Network will host a conference in Portland, Oregon that they claim takes more of a “third way” by welcoming perspectives of affirming Christians and those who believe faithfulness requires celibacy for LGBT pe…

Newt Gingrich Visits the “Holy Ghost Bartender”

By Sarah Posner

…Bay, a high-energy, racially-mixed church in Temple Terrace he founded in December 1996. Nearly 1,000 people spend about four hours in a service led by “the Holy Ghost bartender,” as he is known. Here, he serves the new wine of Christ, and they get drunk with joy. It’s not uncommon for worshipers to break into uncontrollable “holy laughter,” shaking with mirth, dancing in the aisles or falling to the ground. They say they are “slain in the spirit…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…n, in short, the profit motive has been invested in deepening an uncounted number of rabbit holes. Neiwert diagnoses the issue systematically, showing piece by piece how technology has helped conspiracy theorizing and delusional thinking slip from the fringe into the mainstream of American politics. But Neiwert fortunately takes the analysis far deeper than these conventional reflections. The technological drivers of modern irrationalism, as he po…