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Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…ts to portray that repeal as devastating to the troops and the survival of Western Civilization, even though a majority of Americans (58%) favor open service, compared to 27% who oppose it. Consistently, the only demographic group from which more people oppose open service than favor it has been white evangelicals. Opponents of repeal frequently point to the opposition of the military’s chaplains to ending DADT, although the Pentagon report releas…

Should Faith Healing ‘Do Business’ with Modern Medicine?

By Beatrice Marovich

…ding or eviscerate physical illness—appears in some of the oldest texts of Western culture. The gospel accounts attributed to Matthew, for instance, tell the story of a woman who’s been bleeding (presumably an intrauterine problem) for twelve years. She sneaks up behind Jesus, thinking that if she’s able to touch even the hem of his robe, she might be riddled with the miraculous—that her body might be healed. He senses her presence and turns aroun…

Christmas Candy Jesus, Black Magi, Jewish Xmas

By Michael J. Altman

…gathered these images together as part of their “The Image of the Black in Western Art.” The Fed has reversed its ban on religious displays prompted by one bank in Oklahoma. Payne County Bank in Perkins, Oklahoma ran afoul a Kansas City Fed examiner who said the bank’s Christmas displays and Christian symbols could be regarded as discriminatory. A county in Indiana is fighting to keep its nativity scene up: “If we let them do this, let them take C…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…am in the primordial sense. It is a very convincing discourse, but only by Western Muslims. Muslims born and in generations of Islam anthropologically don’t really care as much how the newbies identify. Besides, once I learned that my slave ancestors on my mother’s side were Muslims, anthropologically speaking, the gusto was taken out of that claim for origins. Mostly because when I discussed this amongst Muslims of generations, even my friends, I…

Pope Warns of “Christianophobia”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mbattled victim, worldwide. Thus the times are analogous to the end of the western Roman empire, a time when Christians were similarly besieged.. But from which they emerged triumphant. Clearly, this Pope sees a battle in the offing, and he is reminding the faithful of the divine power enlisted on her behalf. Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam… It is a deeply worrisome message couched in the apparently benign language of liturgy. And it betrays a refu…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…ecently: “the insidious thing about words is that the act of decrying them promotes their usage.” Being that the term is now ubiquitous, perhaps a look back at the history of “Judeo-Christian” is in order. Popularized by Liberals The first recorded uses of the term “Judeo-Christian” were in England in the 1820s, though it was used quite differently than it is in today’s political rhetoric. The term was first coined by protestant missionaries who u…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…representing the eastern half of the country clearly won, but the dominant western elite refused to accept a result that would find them subordinated. Much of this refusal was rooted in ethnic supremacism and religious chauvinism (Many of West Pakistan’s elites often saw Bengali-speaking East Pakistanis as culturally inferior and Islamically compromised.) Hundreds of thousands of innocents were slaughtered in this war, as the ostensibly secular P…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…he famous so-called Damascus Affair of 1840, which saw Jewish leaders from Western Europe defend Syrian Jews from the blood libel, stimulated treatises by anti-Semitic agitators, along with scholars who defended Jews and pseudo-scholars who falsely claimed that Jewish texts support ritual murder. The blood libel was even transformed into the Dracula figure, a “blood sucker” who isn’t explicitly identified as a Jew in Bram Stoker’s novel, but who w…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…y for political reasons, and then that the empire instituted the church in Western culture as means of social control. Jesus never existed, according to this theory, and his religion is a myth that functions to empower elites and control the masses. Zeitgeist is not new in its arguments about Christianity. While various apologists have sought to counter the arguments, I am more interested in locating them. Zeitgeist’s theory that religion originat…

Zen and the Art of the Sex Scandal

By Gary Gach

…rence for life, respect for property, sobriety, etc. all seem identical to Western codes of conduct, they arise differently in Buddhism. The Decalogue was revealed by divine commandment. In Buddhism, there’s no creator deity. Nor is there any central Buddhist institution, such as a Vatican. Rather, in establishing one of humanity’s first monastic orders, the Buddha set forth a matrix and process of conscious behavior (vinaya) based on actual condu…