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Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…editor-in-chief. Horowitz specifically situates Neville—and himself—in the New Thought movement. When I told him that Neville’s book had seemed kind of fascist to me, he said that “New Thought philosophy has always faced that ethical dilemma. If you take it as a given that the mind can shape reality, what are the implications of that?” And further, “I don’t think New Thought has ever properly come to terms with the ethical implications of what it…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…ke away that free will, except for those who have the capacity to hack the code and reprogram the car. We normally think of robots as almost pure code, yet the scene last week when Graystone orders the Zoebot to rip off her arm raises some interesting stakes in this. It seems to me that people may be treating the Cylons differently depending on what mix of code and law they believe governs their behavior. And of course, those of you who study reli…

The Biblical Money Code!

By Gordon Haber

…“Biblical Money Code” appears as a fake news article, or “advertorial,” on Newsmax, the semi-fake news website. Hyman in fact seems to work for the website, although his actual role is unclear—a recent bio says that he is part of its “Financial Brain Trust.” “A wise man looks well into a matter,” Proverbs, and Hyman, reminds us. While I wouldn’t make any claims to wisdom, I will say that I have looked into it and conclude that it would be foolish…

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…ene, as the Egyptian authorities did in 2007 when they banned The Da Vinci Code. The Coptic community—which accounts for roughly 10 percent of the nation’s 80 million citizens—had raised alarm and demanded that both the book and movie be banned. Now, three years on, Zeidan’s bestselling novel is is prompting angry demands from that same community. In early May a group of Coptic lawyers demanded that the government imprison the author for five year…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…result of a well-founded allegation of rape by her stepfather. Doctors in Brazil decided that the pregnancy met both grounds for abortion in Brazil: rape and risk to the life of the pregnant woman, in this case a child. The nine-year-old weighs about 80 pounds and is not fully developed. Carrying twins to term and delivering them is medically very risky. The Catholic church first hired lawyers to try to prevent the abortion. When that failed and…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…idly. I was, as usual, seated toward the back of the Assembléia de Deus de New York, a branch of Brazil’s largest neo-Pentecostal church, listening to a charged-up visiting pastor preach, not slowed by his arm in a sling. When he made the ‘call’ I remember my temperature spiking and the sideways glances of the few regulars sitting in my same row. Then I considered that this wasn’t an infiltration. I wasn’t there, passing myself off as a churchgoer…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…Walz’s detractors can help themselves. In a now-deleted post, one Twitter user argued: Walz isn’t actually Lutheran, either: his church does not confess the unaltered Confession of Augsburg to be true, and so they are not actually Lutheran, but just a stack of Methodists in a trenchcoat. That user, like Hemingway, appears to be a member of the Missouri Synod, which like the even more conservative Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and sm…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…d a more playful dimension. Although we cannot foresee the exact nature of new or evolving conspiracy theories that may emerge in 2024, it’s likely that the pervasive conspiracy theories of 2023 will continue to influence the political landscape, particularly in the context of the 2024 election. In any event, belief in conspiracy theories, often rooted in fear, perceptions of injustice, distrust in societal institutions, and feelings of disenfranc…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…t 44% of White evangelical Protestant Republicans preferred Trump to be the 2024 nominee for president, compared to 23% who preferred DeSantis and 5% who preferred Haley. Against this backdrop of White evangelical support for Trump, a broad, unsupported hypothesis has re-emerged that Trump’s stalwart continued support among White evangelicals can be explained by his strength among what I’ll abbreviate as WEINO’s, or “White evangelicals in name onl…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…economic woes plaguing the state and the country if elected president,” OneNewsNow, a news service sponsored by the American Family Association, recently reported. Matthew 25 Network founder Mara Vanderslice “says her group is hoping to run its latest pro-Obama ad in Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati, and Columbus, as well as in smaller locales such as Findlay and Mount Vernon. Salem Radio affiliate WFHM 95.5 ‘The Fish’ in Cleveland is already run…