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The Family Research Council’s Mistaken Identity

By Sarah Posner

…complete text of Southers’ remarks, courtesy of Media Matters for America: Most of the domestic groups that we have to pay attention to here are white supremacist groups. They’re anti-government and in most cases anti-abortion. They are usually survivalist type in nature, identity orientated. If you recall, Buford Furrow came to Los Angeles in, I believe it was 1999. When he went to three different Jewish institutions, museums, and then wound up s…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…hammad; at times in full and otherwise with his face whited out or veiled. Most Muslim scholars today condemn the illustrating of the physical features of Muhammad, but mainstream interpreters do not call for death threats against those who make such images. Muslims, like members of other faiths, express their displeasure in a number of ways over those who belittle their prophet. In 2008, for example, a petition was circulated online to remove a 1…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…there are 80 million atheists in the U.S., a full 26% of the country. The most charitable number I could find was from Gallup, putting the number of Americans in 2014 who say they don’t believe in God at 11%. To make things frustratingly worse, other atheists have been calling Silverman out for falsely inflating the number of atheists for more than four years. And last year, I specifically asked Silverman if he would stop reporting the stats on “…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…s best-seller list. Here’s the description: “Rob Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith-the afterlife-arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever…? Bell puts hell on trial, and his message is decidedly hopeful-eternal life doesn’t start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.” Pastor Bell I know you’re on a book tour right now, so thank you for taking out time to join us on State of…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…r evangelical schools) was subsequently named one of Princeton Review’s 20 most LGBTQ-unfriendly campuses in 2015—rightly, in Steele’s view. In an interview with RD, he maintained that the administration did little to counter incidents of anti-LGBTQ bullying that were brought to its attention while he was a student. Meanwhile, Lindsay’s administration used a financial crisis to get rid of independent faculty voices (including those with tenure), c…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…e of ideology. Of the two claims, the change of attractions has become the most controversial. Along with several other ex-gay leaders, Bussee and his Melodyland colleague Gary Cooper helped found Exodus International, an evangelical ex-gay organization. However, they eventually came out of the closet, left their wives and became partners, thereby leaving ex-gay ministry in 1979. Cooper died in 1991 and Bussee has remained a critic of change effor…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…lash of civilizations thesis, directly or indirectly, lies at the heart of most of the conservative groups Breivik imagined would join his cause. That thesis and its attendant Orientalist images of Islam are what Pat Buchanan and Bryan Fisher share with Breivik, though perhaps only he could imagine the connections that, in his mind, would unite Hindutva, American conservatives and neoconservatives, and European nationalists in a war against Islam….

Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ns and thinkers. Whatever the motivation, the OCA Synod’s statement is the most recent, and arguably egregious, incident in what can only be described as a concerted takeover by extremists of the OCA, once among the most progressive Orthodox bodies in the world. I’ve previously written for RD about the reactionary direction of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, the theological school run by the OCA in Yonkers, New York. While it’s important to stress that E…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…tting 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 Graham’s claim about Obama being “born to a Muslim father” has been repeatedly debunked: Although he was born to a Muslim father, his father renounced his faith. To be a Muslim is not a legal status that is transmitted by birth, like Judaism is confirmed through the mother. A…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…culture wars. Since 1997, when Beck was just a baby Mormon, a coalition of mostly US-based religious right groups, the World Congress of Families, has attempted to rally religious conservatives at international “pro-family” conferences to transcend theological differences to unite against common enemies: feminism, homosexuality, liberal attitudes towards sexuality and reproductive rights, and the separation of church and state. The WCF followed th…