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The Contraceptive Mandate and Animal Suffering

By Frances Kissling

…get out of the education business if they could not fully respect academic freedom. He noted that in the old days, monks served as the original firemen. When a fire happened, the monastery bell rang and they all rushed off to the bucket brigade. This was a religious act. However, when the state and the community took up fire fighting, the monks abandoned the bucket brigade. Perhaps Dan and Peter have it right. If there are services that no one els…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…named Mohammed in the U.K., and said the following of Muslims and Islam: “What it comes down to is that there is one religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them. They say, ‘Look, we’re a religion of peace and if you disagree we’ll cut your fucking head off.” In December of last year, the president of American Atheists posted a status update to his public Facebook profile that read: “Never give up a right without a fight. I wil…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…, which is a very different thing from the misplaced sense of entitlement that is all too common among the young. To appreciate the spiritual achievement that is proper self-respect, we need only to recall the enormous spiritual achievement of the modern civil rights movement—the songs and sermons that forged a people’s fierce determination to stand tall and breathe the sweet air of freedom. For these nonviolent warriors everyday oppression was re…

Is the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?

By Joseph Laycock

…couple and then, when the state refuses to recognize the marriage, claim that their free exercise rights have been violated. Other projects involve the Satanic ideal that one’s body is sacred and inviolable. Expressing disgust that corporal punishment is still legal in schools throughout the South and beyond, Greave hopes to produce waivers for Satanic families providing a religious exemption from corporal punishment (an ironic reversal of SRA cl…

Impossible Possibilities: Obama and Power

By Jonathan L. Walton

…or the current economic crisis will fundamentally change the principles of free markets, free trade, or transnational corporate dominance that ultimately guarantee a permanent underclass at home and abroad. This is why, aside from skin color and charisma, Martin Luther King Jr. (the actual human rights activist, not the ephemeral color-blind dreamer of American folklore) and Barack Obama have little in common: King desired to revolutionize the wor…

T-Shirts and Minarets: The Rending of the Social Contract

By Hussein Rashid

…had not practical import for centuries. However, I do disagree with Qadhi that what Muslims are experiencing in the “West” is new. Many of these issues have come up in generalities, if not particularities, in the past. The Muslims of South Asia have to live as a minority, and in an interfaith environment. The Muslims of Indonesia are in an interfaith milieu. The Muslims of Eastern Europe had limitation on their buildings, and the Muslims in the fo…

How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

By Peter Laarman

…The Fellowship), the shadowy network behind the National Prayer Breakfast that Jeff Sharlet has documented so well. It hardly needs saying that the Trump family’s favorite minister—the positive thinking (and also union-hating!) Norman Vincent Peale—was also very much part of this mix. Dwight Eisenhower became the conservative crusaders’ tool in getting “In God We Trust” on all forms of currency and getting the words “under God” into the Pledge of…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…rule, Warren demonstrated his “gratitude” to Obama when he tweeted, “I’d go to jail rather than cave in to a govement [sic] mandate that violates what God commands us to do.”…

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…hat’s because the Doctor’s conception of “extraordinary” isn’t the opposite of “ordinary”—he utterly rejects that opposition. He opts for a view that is perhaps a bit more paradoxical, like the simultaneous “lodging” and breaking free that James mentions. Alien spaceships aside, the relationship between Craig and Sophie is extraordinarily ordinary, but that means it’s extraordinarily human—and, for the Doctor, that is the most wonderful thing in t…

The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

By Sarah Posner

…ame plays right into the idea, a cornerstone of religious right activism, that “faith” and “freedom” are inextricably linked; that America is a Christian nation whose founders escaped religious persecution (true) but that their descendants’ freedom of religion has been curtailed by secularists who invented separation of church and state and seek to restrain evangelism (which is equated with “religious freedom”) by allowing gay marriage or other le…