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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…30560 The line used is Proverbs 22:6, and this phenomenon, the use of Biblical passages to sell firearms with an explicitly Christian context, is widespread in the United States. And this shouldn’t be surprising—as Brad Stoddard writes here on RD, “AR-15s are also increasingly the firearm of choice for Christian gun owners who arm themselves—in their minds, at least—in defense against both tyranny and evil.” And from there, that love of the AR-15…

UPDATE: Religion’s Role in the Boston Bombings

By The Editors

…Christianity was simply the veneer used to justify the Crusades or, conversely, that it played much of a role in the bizarre story of someone like Jett Simmons McBride. Those who put little stock in claims that Ozzy Osbourne or Grand Theft Auto are responsible for everything from vandalism to murder are frequently just as quick to blame religion should the perp name-drop Jesus or Allah. Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and the rest of the Blame-Is…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…qualifies for a notch or two, and the intertwining roots of rural evangelicalism and country music stretch deep into the soil of American lore. And yet—bravely, naïvely, incredibly, perhaps disingenuously—ABC’s “Nashville” tells the story of contemporary country music, smack in the middle of the South, while almost completely disengaging with the region’s evangelical legacy. Nobody attends potlucks, says grace at a meal, records a token gospel al…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…a conference room in suburban Charlotte on the campus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, with an enormous old Bible on a side table, shelves of Great Books lining the walls, and, on the conference table itself, a 23-inch-tall robot doing yoga. Meet the Digitally Advanced Viritual Intelligence Device, a NAO (now) robot known as “D.A.V.I.D.” Weighing at a little over 11 pounds and costing $16,000 (the seminary was given a discount from Aldebaran, NA…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…anistan, but I would much rather be here, especially because, thanks to my Caliph—I mean President—Obama, I have health insurance already. I am also greatly pleased to address the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, which I had never heard of before. It’s not easy going on after Mr. Lindsey Graham, especially since I didn’t even know he was running for President, and now I feel like you’re going to contrast everything he made up about forei…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…how theology changed these ideals. What I wanted to do was establish a “baseline” of normative ideas of gender among white Protestants by looking at Southern Baptists and Methodists. By examining the emergent Southern Holiness movement, I was able to see how changes in theology altered—often radically—the ways in which personal identity were perceived. Examining these changes, both in theology and gender construction, thus demonstrated how import…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

Perhaps Betsy DeVos can be forgiven for imagining that America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were “real pioneers when it comes to school choice.” I mean, she wasn’t there in the middle of the 19th century, so how could she know? I’m kidding, of course: it’s appalling to see such ignorance in someone who is leading the Education Department. What’s vastly harder to forgive is the Education Secretary’s draping of the banner…

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

… Not that I can blame Democrats for wanting to compete. In American political life it is obviously unhelpful to be viewed as the party of godlessness—everyone gets that. But it’s the how of appealing to the godly that ought to compel a bit more scrutiny, because how these appeals are being conducted now, and by both parties, does not make for an edifying spectacle. Spurred on by Fox News, Republicans had been carping, even crowing, that the Demo…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…at inspired you to write Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement? In all seriousness, this book originated in my body—specifically in my left hip. A few years prior to the book’s conception, I’d been experiencing a lot of pain in that area. When I finally went to the doctor, x-rays revealed that there was no cartilage left in the joint and that the top of my femur was jagged and worn (it’s supposed to be smooth and round)…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…round. Real players are code too, but they have the ability to program themselves and, to some extent, what’s around them. When those players move on in the game, in the simulation, the rest of us disappear, to save on processing power. It’s just IT best practices. This is Rodney Ascher’s 2021 A Glitch in the Matrix, due out this Friday, February 5. The movie has two distinct threads—the first, a documentary about simulation theory. The second, a…