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Top 10 Reasons Mormons Should “Take It Down a Notch for America” This Election Season

By Joanna Brooks

…honor, Mormon humorist Matt Workman and I have come up with the following list of top 10 reasons LDS people should “take it down a notch for America” this election season: 1. The Holy Ghost gets a contact rash from extremist political rhetoric. 2. There’s no need to freak out over politics when you have a year’s supply of rice, beans, wheat, and texturized vegetable protein in your garage. 3. No matter how socialist President Obama allegedly gets…

Joe Miller’s Anti-Gay, Anti-Islam Advisor

By Sarah Posner

…Sells’ Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, on a summer reading list for incoming freshmen. Carl Ernst, professor of Islamic Studies at UNC, in explaining why he advised selection of the book, said, “This book presents the Koran the way it is studied by beginners who approach it.” Of the inclusion of the book as summer reading, the school’s Chancellor, added, “thousands of Carolina students are better prepared to enter this University,…

Dining with Dawkins in the Humanist Bosom

By Edward J. Larson

…a Victorian aristocrat commenting on the mob storming his place. Dawkins’ list does not exhaust the possibilities; creationists could also be indoctrinated or ideological, just to mention a few more options beginning with “I”. Indeed, I find that most creationists accept creationism because they think their religious beliefs demand it. Creationism is part of a package that is attractive to them for reasons that have nothing to do with science. Da…

Prominent Evangelical Pundit Accuses Obama of “Abusing” Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…ith-based office has issues, but this doesn’t appear to be one high on the list of offenses. How is this initiative more politically calculating or cynical or wrong than Karl Rove trying to get more African-Americans to vote Republican by doling out cash to Eddie Long? Gerson has recently co-authored a book on religion and politics with former Bush staffer Peter Wehner, now a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. On CBN, the…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…at in the context of grinding oppression, the most miraculous item in this list is that the poor are learning that God has good news for them.) And then there is the radical nonviolence. Jesus is certainly among the great axial age figures who invites us to explore and apply the immense power of nonviolent direct action. Crossan teaches that failing to put equal emphasis on both terms in “nonviolent revolutionary” completely misses what Jesus was…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…ion about the two books prior to this one I would have given you a laundry list of things I would have done differently. But Holy Ghosts was really a miracle for me in that it was the book where I found my true voice. This is my most personal writing to date. Though this book is a ghost story it is very much a memoir so the writing had to be personal. It’s a serious book, but anyone who knows me knows I’m a bit of a smartass and I make lots of mis…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…ill. Even with Richard Gere in tow, his visits are mostly ignored by journalists, bloggers, and news celebrities, as well as their audiences. Love for your fellow man and kindness to your neighbor just isn’t as appealing as calling your opponent Hitler or burning the sacred text from a different faith. Why is that? Maybe we should take a survey. The media, of course, is not the only culprit in promoting a culture that values hate; though its unoff…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…xuality, which Rushdoony did. But I have argued that this rather sensationalist approach to examining the place of Reconstructionism in contemporary politics undermines efforts to see real influence. DeMint doesn’t advocate stoning, even though he aligns himself with Reconstructionists. He does advocate undoing decades of efforts to secure basic civil rights for gays and lesbians (and apparently for unmarried women as well). He does, it seems, su…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…thought of that argument with my neighbor, and about my frustration, while listening to Boyd K. Packer’s talk at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints this past Sunday. I knew five minutes into this talk that it was going to set the bloggernacle abubble (as Joanna Brooks has already described here on RD). I put down the Sudoku puzzle I was fiddling with and paid attention. I was fascinated by it. And I was trans…

Bullies Flourishing with Christian Support

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…raging kids from taunting other kids perceived to be gay or lesbian would “promote homosexuality to kids.” In the past few weeks, the effect of Focus’ push to block anti-bullying laws is being felt by at least three families who have lost children to suicide. Truth Wins Out compiled this list: • Seth Walsh, the Bakersfield, CA 13-year-old who hanged himself from a tree in his back yard after years of being bullied, died Tuesday afternoon after nin…