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“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…answered a question about Islamic fundamentalism by pointing to the same malady in his own flock. “We Catholics have some—and not some, many—who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.” He didn’t name names, but for some, it was hard not to take it personally. Father Dennis Gordon, for one, pastor of the St. Joan of…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…White House. Together with such prominent Buddhists and scholars such as Lama Surya Das and Virtual Orientalism author Jane Iwamura, Loncke and other attendees held aloft a large banner reading: “U.S. Militarism Breeds Violence, Not Safety. I Vow to Work for Peace & Freedom.” But not everyone was on board. In a blog post entitled “I Wish I Could Agree”, popular Zen teacher Brad Warner wrote: The banner those Buddhists leaders unfurled in front of…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though you wouldn’t have known it from reading the brief, oversimplified opinion. In Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer the Court held that—at least in some circumstances—the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment requires governments to provide taxpayer funds to churches. This newfound requirement is something the dissent argued should, in…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…ven my experiences as a former single-issue voter, it seemed worthwhile to analyze Burge’s claims to see if they hold water. Has there been a sea change in how white evangelicals prioritize abortion? Burge bases his argument on a series of polls from 2018. First, there is data from PRRI that shows how white evangelicals rank certain political issues: From this graph we can see that white evangelicals mention reducing healthcare costs, the budget d…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…they still do good work with religious voters. They recently released a meta-analysis of four of their polls between late September to mid-October, with results as follows: Image courtesy of PRRI. Not surprisingly, Trump’s strongest support comes from white Evangelicals and his weakest from Hispanics and African-Americans. We’ll talk about the minorities in a minute. Here, let us notice that while Evangelical support for Trump is overwhelming, he’…

Is Army’s New “Humanist” Designation Just Semantic Hooey?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ations. A study by the Military Association of Atheist and Freethinkers (MAAF)—the group that put Bradley in contact with the ACLU—reported that nearly 97% of military chaplains are Christian (63% Evangelical), while Christian service members make up 70% of the population. Currently no Humanist or Atheist chaplains approved for military service, though MAAF reports that there are a number of Atheist and Humanist chaplain assistants. The DOD’s r…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…Nonreligious children are more generous,” explained a headline at Science magazine. “It’s not like you have to be highly religious to be a good person,” Decety told Forbes. “Secularity—like having your own laws and rules based on rational thinking, reason rather than holy books—is better for everybody.” Forbes headlined the article “Religion Makes Children More Selfish, Say Scientists.” (Decety tweeted a link to the piece). In the Forbes interview…

Do iPads Cause Religious Experiences?

By Andrew Aghapour

…mostly at the periphery of the crowd, shooting sarcastic looks to the camera and lobbing one-liners about the seemingly religious ecstasy of the “glassy-eyed” consumers being ushered in by a team of Apple’s blue-shirted “preachers.” Entertaining as these loose comparisons might be, it was what Riley did next that caused a brief media flurry and garnered coverage by MSNBC, Business Insider, and over two hundred blogs, news sites, and forums within…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…o be live-streamed, starting Wednesday, June 15). The bishops will take up a number of issues, from the revised liturgy to assisted suicide, but their conversations are sure to be dominated by an issue that has been dogging them since the mid-1980s: sexually abusive priests and the bishops who enabled them. Ten years after Cardinal Bernard Law became the poster bishop for failed religious leadership, new revelations of episcopal misfeasance threat…

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland

By Haroon Moghul

…dering who it is being directed to and where it is apparently originating. A number of Palestinians are Christians, and that Christianity is of course traced back to the time of Jesus himself. The Palestinian weekend is Friday and Sunday. In addition to being the world’s most annoying and dissatisfying weekend schedule (there should be an award for that, or maybe financial compensation), the days reflect the primary religious affiliations of Pales…