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Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…ernan runs a ministry, Defend and Proclaim the Faith and, according to the site’s biography, is a “pro-life leader” in central Pennsylvania, where he lives. He’s also the founder of International Cops for Christ because “[t]he Bible refers to the police as God’s ministers and God has granted awesome power to the police for the subduing of evil. This power includes arresting people and suspending their liberty, putting people in jail, starting civi…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…gler Hemingway about religion and politics was featured on the NYTimes.com site, others argue that journalism has replaced religion as the source of public morality. Or does religion reporting serve as public therapy? Offering a pularistic balm to the wounds of religious difference. At the Guardian, they wonder if inmates should get religion in prison and the American Association for the Advancement of Science tries to help scientists get religion…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…rvey, “Coming Out as an Atheist,” was posted live on the Atheist Nexus Web site for four months from September to December 2008. Respondents were asked various questions such as “In general, how stigmatized do you feel atheists are in your culture?” and “Do you feel that there would be any social repercussions if people in your [workplace/family/local community] found out the you were an atheist?” By a wide margin, atheists in the U.S. were more l…

Touchdown Jesus Burns to the Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f Jesus’ demise brought the usual comments from posters at the Yahoo! News site — many speculating that the destruction was caused because of how the United States has turned her back on Jesus and doesn’t deserve to have his huge likeness around anymore — so he’s outta here. Others, like commenter “Jenna,” who lives in Touchdown Jesus’ neighborhood, had a different take on the demise of the $250,000 structure: ”… they could have spent that money o…

Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News

By Anthea Butler

…s to kids on the web. No matter how accessible Pope Benedict is on his Web site pope2you.net, the fact remains: the current news cycle that runs from the Vatican runs more like the Borgias than any 21st-century church. Trips, councils on evangelization, beatifications, or slick websites aren’t going to bring disillusioned Catholics back to the increasingly vacant pews of Catholic churches in Europe and America. Perhaps the Pope should get together…

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?

By Sarah Posner

This morning, the lead headline on the Washington Post’s web site read: “Hazy, contradictory picture of suspect emerges.” That might be due to the rampant speculation and fact-free “reporting” that has dominated coverage of yesterday’s tragedy at Fort Hood. Maj. Nidal M. Hasan allegedly went on yesterday’s shooting rampage that killed 13 and injured more than 30 more at the Army base in Texas. He is an Army psychiatrist born in the northern Virgi…

Hawk Attack on Liberal Pro-Israel Conference

By Sarah Posner

…n-Ami, which read, “the discussion within the pro-Israel community of what best advances Israel’s cause should be inclusive and broad enough to encompass a variety of views, provided it is conducted in a respectful and legitimate manner. Along the way, we may not agree on everything but I do believe that we must ensure that what unites us as Jews who are committed to Israel’s future as a secure, Jewish, and democratic State is far greater than wha…

Hagee Hangs On

By Bill Berkowitz

…oseph Lieberman. Despite pleas not to attend the Washington meeting from a number of organizations, including the newly-formed Jewish group J Street (which has partnered with Democracy for America in an effort called “Say It Ain’t So, Joe”), Lieberman appears, as of this writing, steadfast in his willingness to stand with Hagee. “It’s now necessary for us to look at the totality of (Hagee’s) views,” Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-De…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ed from North America to Europe, South America, and the Philippines, met a number of politically powerful Republican politicians and conservative religious leaders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Iran/Contra figure Oliver North, and then-Senator Rick Santorum. Religious leaders like Charles Stanley (a former distributor), Dr. Robert Schuller and the late Dr. D. James Kennedy of Florida’s Coral Ridge Ministries—a multimedia, m…

The Happening and the Gospel of Bruce Springsteen

By Diane Winston

…e headship in a traditional Christian family. Lest you think io9 (a sci-fi site) goes off the deep end, look at the interview with Shyamalan in Scientific American. Here the director sounds less a candidate for the Promise Keepers than for a drum circle: There is something that binds everything. To keep looking for that, that drive is almost the holy grail. I can totally relate to that on an intuitive level. That’s somehow tied to some mystical th…