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Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…e work of French philosopher George Bataille, the man who sought mystical experience in sex and pain, who theorized the limits of consciousness in extreme states of the body, who dwelt on inner experience while romantizing the rupture of self that came with intoxication or orgasm or agony. Bataille, perhaps most importantly, imagined all of these concerns in relation with an ideal of community, seeing the limits of the subjective self as both prob…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…today than those feckless Abolitionists did back then amounts to a low bar, please think again—and don’t flatter yourself. There are no shortcuts and no quick fixes to be had in meeting the challenge we face now. It’s going to be a revolution—a new social contract with new power arrangements—or nothing. Beware of any faith leader who tells you otherwise. God is once again “trampling out the vintage“: nothing less than the complete overthrow of whi…

The Political Strategist’s Conversion that Led to Ron Paul’s New Faithiness

By Sarah Posner

…President Bushes’ evangelical outreach strategy. The development signals a new approach by Paul, who, despite being a favorite of homeschoolers, a student of Christian Reconstructionist economics, and a committed foe of legal abortion, has never really played the religion card like a good, lock-step Republican. But recently he brought on Doug Wead as a senior advisor to his campaign. Wead told me that he encouraged Paul to dust off a 2007 “Stateme…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…epeated it at virtually every opportunity. As I reported last year, when Fox News and the American Center for Law and Justice were claiming that the Congressional Muslim Staff Association was infiltrated by terrorists, American Conservative Union board member Suhail Khan (who has long been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating not just the government, but the conservative movement), told me: “since…