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Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…t of powerhouse programs like Florida State and Auburn. Some are there because they used drugs. One was charged with burglary. Another punched a woman in a bar. Football players spout self-serving platitudes all the time. “No relationship is perfect” is how Ray Rice explained the video of him striking his then-fiancee in an elevator in 2014. But Johnson isn’t trying to justify himself. He doesn’t use our shared imperfection to paint over his sins….

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…The Anti-Defamation League lists the valknot as a possible hate symbol because of its use by white supremacist Odinists, though the cultural permeation of these symbols beyond Odinist groups like Ásatru means that their presence isn’t necessarily an indication of ideology. The tattoo on his shoulder appears Greek inspired, while there seem to be runes on his hand, and bricks on his arms that could be an homage to the border wall. Turning to Q Sham…

Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…n were being threatened by the possibility that people of any gender could use any bathroom. More than a decade later, not only is the T still frequently being dropped, but that will remain the case as long as we continue, from bathrooms to ID cards, to organize ourselves around the gender binary. Writing for Type Investigations, Sarah Posner argues that bills banning medical care to trans youth are rooted in what she calls “baseless distortions o…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…during the Great Depression and transforming evangelicalism into a powerhouse for creative conservatism, or the recent work of David Chappell, Paul Harvey, and Barbara Diane Savage linking religious worldviews to changes in civil rights politics, our entire understanding of the era has been transformed in the last decade. We have Schultz to thank for including a more robust examination of interactions between and among Protestants, Catholics, and…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…of Buddhist Jātaka narratives is not confined to any particular sect, because as models of exemplary religious ethics, these stories did not primarily address doctrine or dogmatic creeds. The narratives were theological “blank slates” and could be redacted to include dogma, but they didn’t contain too many “red flags” which identified them as coming from a competing doctrinal system. Thus the same stories are found in a wide range of Buddhist sch…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” [Note: In a puzzling move, the Trump campaign later tried to amend the statement to replace the phrase “entire existence” with “sad, miserable existence.”] In graduate school, I concentrated in political philosophy and ethics, w…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…d preferred mercy, amnesty and forgiveness over force (though Muhammad did use force, and at times that use of force shocks). #5 Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie The downfall of the Duggar family, of reality TV fame, was among the most notorious sources of Schadenfreude this year. Sarah Posner goes beyond the gossip and muckraking in this post about the family’s cover-up of Josh Duggar’s sexual predation. #4 Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evan…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…thing they agree on is that [neither] prayer nor scripture should ever be used as weapons. And we agree that prayer should be entered into humbly, seeking the Holy One’s will and guidance, not assuming we already know what it is.” Campaigns like PLAL’s, with their use of names and photographs, are potential catalysts for harassment according to Reverend Knox. “Creating what looks like a wanted poster, then asking people to pray for those shown, i…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…said they have “no place in Australia’s civil discourse.” While Shelton refused to apologize, he has said people misinterpreted his comments. From Pink News: Speaking to the Star Observer, he said: “If people are thinking that I think same-sex marriage is going to cause a Holocaust, that’s ridiculous. “What I’m saying is that when you’ve got harmful ideologies there are consequences, and future generations will think how did this happen, why are c…

Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…described the ‘Islamic State’ as “not Islamic” it was not necessarily because of a lack of understanding of the group, but because of an awareness of the power of his words to affect the lives of the millions of Muslims in America. Wood does not acknowledge the power his words have in constructing the “reality” they depict. That is, he is not simply describing the Truth, but helping to construct it. In her essay “Representing Fundamentalism: The…