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Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…the Volga river valley, Crimea and southern Ukraine, and the Caucasus and Central Asia, whose peoples have never fully come to terms with being subjugated. (The lack of real democracy, of course, is a major reason their alienation continues.) But the Russia that once bested Napoleon and Hitler, that rivaled the United States for global power, has had less luck of late. If it’s not hard to imagine Russia losing in Syria, it’s because we saw Russia…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…, too. Populist historians within evangelicalism, like the prominent Texas Republican, David Barton, promote the idea that America is slouching toward Gomorrah. America is God’s chosen republic, Barton asserts: the nation has been an explicitly Christian country from its earliest days and needs to reverse its sinful migration away from its biblical roots. Professional historians, by contrast (including leading evangelicals like Mark Noll, Nathan H…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ow their building to be used for same-sex weddings and they “no longer are free to reject homosexual applicants for staff positions.” An executive order signed by Obama does away with “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and supports “actively recruiting homosexuals,” going so far as offering “bonuses [to homosexuals] for enlisting in military service.” Students are no longer free to attend “‘see you at the pole’ meetings where students pray together, or [par…

Prop 8 and the War on Xmas?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in. Outrageous? Preposterous? Violation of religious freedom? Violation of freedom of speech? The howling from the pro-Merry Christmas camp would be ear shattering! Well, it could happen if enough folks pulled together to sponsor such a measure—and if the proponents of Prop 8 prevail before the California Supreme Court, the courts may not the power to prevent Christ being kicked out of the season’s greetings. The November 4 vote, supporting an end…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…Rosario, and other large cities. Ironically, the first gay marriage in the Republic of Argentina took place in the Province of Tierra del Fuego, literally at the end of the world in 2009 when Alex Frye, the head of an AIDS organization, and Jose Maria Di Bello, an executive for the Red Cross, tied the knot. In that case the governor of the province urged a local clerk to register the union just six months before it became legal throughout the coun…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…Security Policy and its president, Frank Gaffney, indeed are respected and promoted in certain circles, in 2011 Gaffney was banished from the Conservative Political Action Conference because American Conservative Union board members considered him a “crazy bigot” who made the tin foil hat charge that the board had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described…

Rand Paul and the Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…. The stated goal of the Constitution Party is to reestablish America as a Republic organized around biblical principles and under the authority of Jesus Christ. An examination of the Constitution Party platform shows clearly the influence of this movement advocating not only positions on numerous issues that have long been developed and promoted by Rushdoony and his followers, but doing so in terms of the reasoning put forth by Reconstructionists…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…t the United States is, in terms of political science, an anti-homeland: a republic of citizens from any or all ethnic, religious, and genetic backgrounds, a people united by their shared allegiance to the Constitution. In theory the United States could adopt any language as its official language, could take any size or shape, and contain any kind of terrain. By contrast, Native Americans generally have specific homelands tied to specific landform…

Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…We, black and white, brown and yellow, rich and poor, urban and suburban, Republican, Democrats, and independents, come together and rise against the spirit of Herod, a culture of death and moral relativism. We need your kingdom come and thy will to be done. Let this nation once again adhere to the very tenets of our republic, one truly committed to life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in Jesus’ name we pray. Now we know what Rodriguez mea…

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

…rion Fund, which has ties to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Aish Hatorah, promotes its films to neoconservative and Christian-right audiences, who no doubt hear a familiar ring to the charges of Myrick et al. But despite its efforts to make these charges seem like a “moderate” view, they are far outside the mainstream. When I wrote about the Clarion Fund and its films last year, Paul Barrett, an editor at Business Week and author of American Isla…