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Celebrating Religious Freedom Day By Taking Back the Revolutionary Meaning of ‘Religious Freedom’

By Frederick Clarkson

…been dominated by the Christian Right. Even the website ReligiousFreedomDay.com is owned by Gateways to Better Education, a Christian Right outfit that seeks to turn the Day to its own purposes. There’s no democratically inclined organization or any agency of government charged with education about the Virginia Statute. Still, the 221 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives were an ideologically diverse group, from Christian Right Rep…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…is blotted out from under heaven,” is not a subtle message. https://twitter.com/TGC/status/1712838183916900865 The article itself makes for complicated reading. In one section, it reads: Amalekites don’t just happen to harm women and children as “collateral damage.” Amalekites don’t carry out the ban, as Israel did, destroying men, women, children, and animals in select Canaanite cities, on Yahweh’s orders. Israel didn’t attack Jericho, Ai, or H…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…tual connotations. Speaking out in opposition to the bill, according to AL.com, is evangelical activist Dr. Joe Godfrey, who “told committee members that yoga is a religious practice.” Although it would be simplistic to equate yoga with Hindu religion, neither is the association baseless. Setting aside the legal question, Dr. Godfrey does, in fact, have support for his statement about yoga’s religious content from some unexpected places. One of th…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…e Ziegler Hemingway about religion and politics was featured on the NYTimes.com site, others argue that journalism has replaced religion as the source of public morality. Or does religion reporting serve as public therapy? Offering a pularistic balm to the wounds of religious difference. At the Guardian, they wonder if inmates should get religion in prison and the American Association for the Advancement of Science tries to help scientists get rel…

Black Satanist Candidate Faces LA Sheriff Shakedown

By Joseph Laycock

…ospital and that, as such, he wasn’t permitted to own guns. https://twitter.com/satan4congress/status/1519100552998580224 Hill claims he’s never spent the night in any hospital, let alone a psychiatric hospital. He spent nearly an hour handcuffed in his own driveway, in view of his children, while police searched his home for weapons. They confiscated two hunting guns—heirlooms that had belonged to Hill’s father—and the 9mm handgun that he keeps i…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…t movies, released in 2008. At that time, John-Henry Westen of lifesitenews.com wrote the following prescient passage (reposted shortly after the Aurora shootings) about Ledger’s particularly dark, violent, and psychotic portrayal of the Joker: Are there going to be imitators of the Joker portrayed in The Dark Knight? There already are. Just look on YouTube for the number of videos where teens are dressing up as and imitating the lines of the Joke…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t) men or women, and the presence of LGBT consumers has been forgotten. … Being a gay person myself, I’ve always felt that was such a waste of opportunities,” said Morinaga, 33, who won an in-company competition to start the venture. “By turning our eyes to (LGBT people), I believe we can create products or services that we’ve never seen before.” …

Jim Wallis Rejects 1996 Pro-Life Declaration

By Sarah Posner

…“centrist” and “reasonable,” but he commands a disproportionate amount of power to draw others to it. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/a-faith-declaration-for-h_b_313016.html…

Bart Stupak’s Demand: What It Would Mean

By Sarah Posner

…red,” DFL executive director Kristen Day told the conservative site CNSNews.com. Day claimed that Stupak’s language would “apply the Hyde Amendment” to health care [barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortions], though that has already been done through the Capps Amendment, which Stupak has called a “phony compromise.” Lois Capps, a California Democrat and author of the eponymous amendment, has already laid out exactly how her amendment i…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…g Trump’s presidency. And it makes me wonder what we can expect. Will we become numb? Complacent? Kaya Oakes: There are some things the series portrays that aren’t realistic, in my opinion. Atwood herself describes it as speculative fiction, which always operates on the worst case scenario. Maybe this is my California filter, but I don’t see women being rounded up and forced into Puritan-style outfits (maybe ours will be designed by Ivanka?), or L…