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Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…s’ ethics during the time of Covid 19: Better them than us. We owe them nothing. Fast forward to this very day. All of the statewide election results may not be in, but the big election result—the mind-boggling result—is already plain. This election finds close to half of American voters still rallying behind Trump and hate and exclusion and death. https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1323810992879357952 What does this tell us? I’ve been hearing f…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…faith “became something vital” and the “north star for orienting my life” which led him toward a “battle for social justice”; the convention demonstrated faith in action. Unlike the Republican Party, which tends to see “faith” as a static concept like “patriotism” that’s either performed correctly or it isn’t, the Democratic Party highlighted progressive faith and values in a dynamic way—within the context of the most pressing social and economic…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…us is tantamount to endorsing sinful conduct—has not reached the nation’s highest court until this year. In an interesting—or ominous—shift from prior cases on this issue, ADF is leaning heavily on its claims that both the baker and florist in these cases are artists, whose work has inherent artistic merit. They argue that their clients cannot be compelled to engage in artistic expression that contradicts an artist’s “sincerely held religious bel…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…often they go to church. Pew’s 2020 validated voters study found that two-thirds of White evangelicals who voted in 2020 attended religious services at least monthly. The study similarly found no significant differences between White evangelical support for Trump by church attendance. In the 2020 presidential election, 85% of White evangelicals who attended religious services monthly or more voted for Trump, compared to 81% of those who attended l…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the evolutionary theory it seems to presuppose, then a better way to read this data might be to suggest that a number of recognizably religious traditions are undergoing some significant modern mutations, such that the affiliations into which they are turning bear only a partial resemblance to what preceded them. Dinosaurs don’t just go extinct, they became birds—that’s the idea. But dinosaurs as dinosaurs did die out, and that’s what these scient…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…r center-right Catholics and evangelicals, to name several biggies. But I think in this case, the sacred is our protection of religious freedom and diversity, not ground zero or 9/11, which have already been subject to much sacrilege. And that’s exactly why Democrats “getting religion” has to mean getting all religion, and not just the right’s monopolistic definition of what it means to be trustworthy. UPDATE: Hussein points out how Franklin Graha…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…so worth using some caution in understanding its significance and impact. While his campaign is trying to create an aura of evangelical inevitability, the WORLD magazine (unscientific) survey of evangelical leaders, for example, still shows Cruz running behind Marco Rubio for support among evangelical elites. Although the Texas meeting was off the record, the big names who were revealed are of the type that have strong name recognition among non-e…

New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…200 American Muslims have been charged with terrorism-related activities. This number includes those who committed acts of terrorism overseas in places like Somalia and Yemen. Even if we take the conservative number of 2 million Muslims in the U.S., that means 0.01% of Muslims are involved in terrorism-related activity over the span of a decade. Per annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ing them to justice. The manifesto of the Unabomber contained a sufficient number of clues to his identity that eventually someone—his own brother—recognized the familiar writing patterns and revealed his identity to the authorities. But there is another reason for the anonymity: the perpetrators want the acts to speak for themselves. If one regards acts of terrorism as a kind of performance violence, one can accept the notion that the act itself…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…ous conservative Christians practicing home births, and then you also had this hippie movement, these countercultural, anti-establishment individuals,” says Melissa Cheyney, a licensed midwife and assistant professor of medical anthropology at Oregon State University. The growing number of women seeking a secular midwife has created a gap in care, however. In some areas the preponderance of Christian midwifery, in tandem with restrictive laws, can…