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Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…s scientific revelation that internet pornography might lead to impotence, online sex brings several billions of dollars in profit each year—the pornographic gaze is good for business. The filmmakers and photographers make porn are the equivalent of arms manufacturers in the theater of war. An erect organ on screen shares space, at least in the male mind, with the shooting off of a tomahawk missile. At least in the male mind, war and sex are the p…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…ion leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nation claims 30,000 online members — and no one has called for him to retract the statement….

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…ensation, drawing support primarily from atheists and college students. In online forums, the doctrines and mythology of FSM were expanded and in 2006 Henderson published The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pirates somehow found their way into this mythology, becoming an important symbol of the movement. In a parody of the pseudo-scientific arguments sometimes used by creationists, Pastafarians created charts showing a direct relationship…

All-American Muslim is Just TV, Folks

By Zeba Iqbal

…that do, I can understand their disappointment. After I saw the crit-fest online by my people, I felt both stupid and guilty for watching and enjoying this ‘dumb, sub-standard’ show merely for its entertainment value. I chided myself for supporting this imperfect representation of Muslims, and ignoring its major flaws. But then, I asked myself, how could I not? And reminded myself of Bombay Dreams. I watched All-American Muslim to show support fo…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…s it takes to get us there. She is also a co-creator of Frequencies, a new online “collaborative genealogy of spirituality,” in which scholars, journalists, and artists prod subjects from Burning Man to This American Life. There has never been a better time to explore the intersection between Reverend Billy and the kind of academic discussion Kathryn Lofton has helped to forge. This summer, Billy and Savitri published a new book, edited by Columbi…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…g and out of touch with nuances of human history proved to be just the opposite: engaged, sensitive, curious, imaginative. He concluded, “if this is the demonized community, then our future is a lot brighter than what we’ve been led to believe.” Chase acknowledges that the group participants skewed progressive, but the prevalence of progressive-oriented Muslim community leaders may itself be news to many Americans. Cultural Imperialism, or Human R…

Tim Tebow, Protestant Saint

By Sean S. O'Neil

…sterday, my mother called me in a panic. “Who won the game?!” I am looking online right now and I see that it is tied at fifteen, but I don’t know if that is a live feed. “Is it over?” Her voice was quivering with anxiety and guilt: “I was having lunch with your uncle—I forgot the game was on!” My mother waited with bated breath to hear if her favorite NFL quarterback—indeed, probably the only NFL quarterback in history she could name—had come thr…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…even be able to get bread at the supermarket. I think it’s because, in our online age, people want to be connected to stuff, to “real” things like soil and sweat and fruit. And I think that’s part of what’s behind the OWS protests. Their rhetoric is sometimes anti-capitalist. But it’s never anti-Steve-Jobs-capitalist. It’s anti-Goldman-capitalist. See the difference? One is a genius, the other a usurer. One is a person, the other a faceless corpo…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ined the effort. Under new president Jim Daly, they recently launched a website called “Rising Voice,” aimed at attracting young evangelicals to social issues like sex trafficking. According to Kelly Rosati, vice president of Community Outreach at Focus, the issue fits in with their organizational emphasis on the sanctity and dignity of all human life. And yet, back on their main website, conservative Christian sexual politics remain at the fore;…

Premature “Gay Marriage Defeated” Post Removed from National Review

By Peter Montgomery

…n for Marriage’s Cultural Director Thomas Peters posted to National Review Online a joyous post declaring “Gay Marriage Defeated” and boasting about the coalition that had defeated marriage equality in New York. Strangely enough, no news outlets were reporting the defeat of marriage equality. A few hours after NOM’s claim, CBS news reported that negotiations over the scope of the religious exemption—reportedly the sticking point for a number of Re…