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Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…plains “Why Putin won’t get tough on Kadyrov.” Recounting a recent meeting between the two leaders, Arutunyan writes: The sum total of the message demonstrated that Putin has no leverage over Kadyrov: that Russian laws do not work in Chechnya, but at least Chechnya is doing its bit to fight Russia’s wars (even if the battalion was merely there for protection, not military action), so it deserves every ruble of Russia’s tribute (and Kadyrov made a…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ong” for May and the Conservative Party to be aligning themselves with and promoting “an organization that promotes hatred, homophobia and misogyny born of religious fundamentalism and masquerading as religious freedom.” The UK’s general election will be held on June 9. Poland: Warsaw Pride parade draws crowd in spite of opposition from church, gov’t, nationalists A crowd estimated by organizers at 50,000 people and by police at 13,000 marched in…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…tion. We now know a lot about human nature and about the complex interplay between biology and culture, and these findings have major consequences for the study of imaginative culture such as literature and film. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Yeah, an intelligent and curious lay audience, in particular, anybody interested in the mechanics of horror and in the evolutionary underpinnings of imaginative culture. Are you hopin…

What’s Wrong With Atheist Lent?

By Vlad Chituc

…we often need help living out our values, be it from community support or better structured environments. Lent seems a natural way to do this. This isn’t a particularly original idea, and I have much less claim to the holiday than many other nonbelievers. A few years ago, The New York Times profiled a few atheists who were practicing Lent, and many of them were doing so because they had grown up Catholic and no longer believed. John Corvino, an a…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…couple married at the courthouse. The Faroe Islands, located about halfway between Norway and Iceland, are an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Hong Kong: Canada encourages marriage equality; US Religious Right group launches chapter The anti-gay MassResistance also announced the creation of a Hong Kong chapter it says is led by a Catholic priest “and a core group of eight veteran Hong Kong family activists.” In contrast, Canada’s…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…ies that have established official religions, as in England (Anglicanism), Denmark (Lutheranism), and elsewhere. Political trends are better explained by socio-political and economic variables in culturally specific contexts rather than through ahistorical pronouncements on religious or cultural essences. As Hashemi incisively observes, “Religious traditions are not born with an inherent democratic or secular conception of politics” and that such…

With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…eaking antiquity, such as this example displayed at the National Museum of Denmark. The significance of this image, of which there are around fifty examples dating from the earliest years of the Common Era, remain obscure; yet it was argued until recently (not without controversy) that Cerunnos is the template for the archaic European pan-deity who was latter interpreted by the Christians as a demon, using that as pretext to persecute his worshipe…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…among other changes, added the occupation of “witch” to the nation’s labor codes. Those charging clients for tarot readings, curses, and blessings must now pay a 16 percent income tax and make contributions to health and pension programs. The ire of the witches, some of whom responded by performing rituals to hex the government, has become fodder for scores of offbeat news stories throughout the west. But there is a deeper story to the witches of…

United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme

By Austin Dacey

…against individuals (criminalized even under the First Amendment) to the effectively unverifiable standard of being motivated by religious hostility, as under the UK’s Crime and Disorder Act of 1998. Convictions against writer and activists such as Paul Giniewski in France, Lars Hedegaard in Denmark, and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria demonstrate that hate speech laws are ripe for abuse even in liberal democracies. Civil society activists…

Are Atheists More Moral than the Religious?

By Lauri Lebo

…igious countries in the history of the world, consistently rates as the happiest of nations. And studies of apostates — people who were religious but later rejected their religion — report feeling happier, better and liberated in their post-religious lives. This last point intrigues me. I’d like to hear from some of those apostates. Do you feel better since shedding your religion? Why so?…