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Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice

By Eric Reitan

…Kissling presents the opposing view here —ed. According to a recent Times Online article (provocatively headlined “Richard Dawkins calls for arrest of Pope Benedict XVI”), Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, both leaders in the “New Atheist” movement, “have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.” The hope, apparently, is to be in a positio…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…entary program Tegenlicht about the Israel lobby in the USA. View for free online. (Quote appears at 10:21). More information on Christians United for Israel here. Page 3 Panel 1: Stats from Parade magazine. Panel 2: Veto list taken from here. Panel 3: Order the book here. Background here. Panel 5: More on the anti-Semitic tract in this panel here. Panel 6: Quote from here. Panel 7: Obama quote from here. Panel 8: Kessler appears in this video of…

Who’s Afraid of Sacred Soccer?

By Gary Laderman

…video has been pulled); a recent, heartfelt post in the Washington Post’s online “On Faith” section compared the inspired leadership of soccer and religion in glowing terms; in a recent USA Today post on the intersections of religion and soccer, the reader is left with the seemingly outrageous question: which ranks higher for you, soccer or religion?; and in our own recent feature, Preston Davis asserts that soccer, like religion, “possesses a be…

Ground-Zero Mosque: A Call for Internal Muslim Debate

By Abbas Jaffer

…ers are not utilizing. American Muslims need to find the wherewithal to take these widespread local discussions to mass and online media publics….

Social Cost of Christianity?

By Lauri Lebo

…eks ago, I wrote a blog post about the social cost of atheism. Based on an online survey, most atheists said they believe they suffer at least some stigma for not believing in God from their family, community and workplace. By a wide margin, atheists in the U.S. were more likely to feel a sense of stigma, highest among those living in the south. For instance, 57 percent of U.S. respondents said they felt they would suffer at least minor social rep…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…, and physical well-being. It is only fitting that Peter Christian Hall’s online novel American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence, should appear now, during this season for fear. The premise is simple: The narrator sells flu protection gear (masks, goggles, disinfectant) out of his Lower East Side apartment as a deadly H5N1 pandemic washes over the city, causing massive casualties and wreaking havoc to the social fabric. Better equipped and…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…igrants that would be embodied by SB1070. Tales abound in print, on radio, online, and television media of Latinos/as afraid to be out on the streets. There have been reports of people afraid to leave their homes to go for groceries or to take the kids to school for fear they’d be pulled over or stopped because they are Latino/a, whether they are citizens or not. Businesses in Latino/a neighborhoods are struggling. While SB1070 is exclusive to Ari…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…on Kills,” and the church has offered a telling apology on stickers and in online advertisements: “As Christians, we are sorry for being self-righteous judgmental bastards. Revolution NYC: A church for people who have given up on church.” To Bakker, religion is dangerous because of its rules and regulations and lack of emphasis on personal belief. “It’s like going to work,” he told me several years ago. “We need to agree to disagree because right…

Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…anyone—even a full-time academic—can read. Many of them are available free online, as are the daily updates these organizations email their followers. In my work I explore the Reconstructionists’ worldview and trace its dissemination to activists who acknowledge its influence on their views (like Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips) to those who might not even realize the role of Rushdoony’s teachings in their education. To say that Reconst…

Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day

By Lauri Lebo

…wn freedom to express our dismay at those who use their freedom to express intolerance and to attempt to provoke others to violence and conflict. For those who wish to read the Qur’an online, here is a link. McGrath ends with a quote by Heinrich Heine, who said, “Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.”…