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Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…e toward socialism—and of course he thinks that private ownership and free markets are biblically sanctioned. One serious limitation of this view is that there are resources upon which free markets are dependent that are not privately owned—what Barton’s beloved founding fathers would have called the “commonwealth.” Companies that pollute the environment while making their products, for example, do not “own” the air into which they pour that waste…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…example, he says, “I have faith in God in the same way I have faith in the stock market.” It made their faith feel real to them in a way it might not have before. Also, what it does is to naturalize these very new economic ideas and practices. How does Moody Bible Institute come to be led by a captain of industry, this oatmeal man who is an expert at branding? Crowell started at Moody Bible in 1901 and was basically in charge starting in 1904, 190…

“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

By Sarah Posner

…ing in the final days leading up to the election. The National Republican Trust PAC, run by conservative conspiracy theorist Scott Wheeler, has purchased airtime in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to broadcast its 25-minute “Breaking Point” political attack ad, starting last Friday. Using clips from Townhall.com, World Net Daily, Fox Business, CNSNews.com, and Glenn Beck, narrator E. W. Jackson invokes the boogeymen of…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…on the LDS psyche—it only exposes it. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did cruel, cruel things to their followers and their wives as they taught and practiced the doctrine of polygamy. My ancestors, admittedly clannish, self-righteous people, paid for their faults by being repeatedly evicted from their homes and being threatened with extermination on order of the governor in Missouri. The Mormon migration to Utah involved tremendous suffering, as e…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…nd years. What does your reading of Revelation offer to the contemporary struggle over religion and politics in America? I do think, as an American, that the separation of religion and politics is very important because we have so many religious groups. But I realize that it’s not enough just to complain when politicians fuse them, because politics and religion have been fused for most of the human race for most of our history. And so I was asking…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

…way from government they keep religion, the better for America’s religious stock. Conservatives may recoil at this advice in practice, but they already agree in principle. Religion in Europe waned because Christianity maintained a religious monopoly. America, on the other hand, saw religion thrive because the First Amendment to the Constitution created a religious free market. What could be more palatable to conservatives than the fact that Americ…

Jack Ryan Uses Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA

By Erin Runions

…t impedes our national ability to care for citizens, the film suggests the stock market must be protected lest it become one more tool of other nations’ hateful terrorist attempts to damage U.S. citizens. It imagines a world of discrete and autonomous nations, even as it celebrates the marketplace of transnational global capital. If biblically fetishizing and exonerating Wall Street is a chief outcome, the film’s sexual politics also help ficti…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gay people leave country Tsargrad TV, a channel affiliated with right-wing Russian Orthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BBC: In a video on its social media channels this week, Tsargrad TV called on gay people to c…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…a wrong needs to be righted plays out on the Buccaneers’ sports field, the stock market, and Backtalk with Baxter. But the reality of the tragedy remains hidden and no one—not the police, nor the reporters nor the families involved—seems interested in sussing it out. In each instance, using, pursuing, or bowing to perceptions is the more pragmatic course. Overall it’s another bad week for Daniel. He’s not only harassed by the media, but he’s undon…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…nd growing militarism in Russia. “All this has grown so much that it has already started spreading into the neighboring states. The same people, who cried ‘Death to gays’ and hailed the laws banning ‘gay propaganda’ and restricting public assemblies, ended up shouting ‘Crimea is ours’ and going to Donetsk and Luhansk.” Jamaica: Independence Day Protests Against Buggery Law We have reported on U.S. evangelicals backing resistance to the repeal of J…