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Devil’s Bookmark: Atheism for Smarties

By Bernard Schweizer

…titles as “Argument from the Eternity of Irony” or the “Argument from The New York Times.” But if this suggests broad comedy or even farce, the reader will not find it in this book. In fact, Goldstein’s novel represents one of the more sensitive, humorous explorations of religious thematics from an atheist perspective. In other words, Goldstein takes religion and the religious impulse seriously, even as she exposes the various obstacles to human…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…pray for the death of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. According to the Jerusalem Post: After mentioning the traditional New Year’s wish of “may those who hate us be finished” Yosef reportedly said that God should send a plague to Abbas and the Palestinians, and they should be finished. The next morning Netanyahu distanced himself from the Rabbi’s remarks. “These words do not reflect the approach of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, nor the posi…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…ca.” Senator Cruz has also deployed his father, itinerant preacher Rafael Cruz, as a campaign surrogate. Cruz père, who is outspoken in his calls for conservative Christian hegemony, preaches Seven Mountains Dominionism, a religious ideology which overlaps with Christian Americanism and calls for Christians to take “dominion” over society and government. Senator Cruz himself echoes these dominionist sentiments in his epilogue to Rafael’s book, A T…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…ve—and Syria was dominated by a secular Ba’ath party. Yet, as I wrote, the New York Times, America’s leading newspaper, irresponsibly confused religiosity with a lack of receptivity to democracy. (Then again, if you’re the majority, of course you’d support democracy—a principled stand is sometimes a partisan stand.) Following the latest in the Egyptian military’s unprovoked assaults on civilian protesters, who reasonably enough are furious with th…

#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”

By Shaina Hammerman

…ss.’” As a white, Jewish woman in liberal San Francisco, there is a chasm between my experiences of privilege and the discrimination felt by Muslim Frenchwomen and black Americans. This is why The New York Times was right to share the actual words of Muslim women. But Valls, so enchanted by “republican principles,” is unable to hear their words and believe them….

Toward a Richer Ethical Discourse in Trumplandia: A Response to Harper’s “Trump: A Resister’s Guide”

By Peter Laarman

…ge with religion that is neither creepily apologetic (in either the old or new meaning of that term) nor creepily antiseptic and thus untrue to religion’s rhapsodic dimension. Four of the ten Harper’s essayists stand out: Corey Robin, Wesley Yang, Tim Barker, and Sarah Schulman. Robin’s “The Dream of the Enemy” may be the best of the lot. In just eight compressed paragraphs, Robin reminds us that today’s multicultural neoliberalism, epitomized by…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…her on the evangelical authoritarianism that Best seeks to sweep under the rug. As an ex-evangelical, it is immensely frustrating to me to see major commentators and media outlets time and again downplay the significance of the kind of intolerant, illiberal, authoritarian Christianity I grew up with. Authoritarian Christians are naturally fond of strongmen, so long as they’re strongmen for Jesus. And America’s Christian nationalists, including the…

Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

By Mark D. Jordan

…y,” we have to jump to medieval Rome and Peter Damian, fierce monk and sometimes cardinal. He defines four varieties of a sexual sin that he names “sodomy.” The varieties are (in modern terminology): male masturbation, mutual masturbation by men, penile insertion between a partner’s thighs, and intercourse “in the rear.” Note that for Peter Damian only men can commit sodomy and that they begin to do so as soon as they masturbate even once. Using t…

Texas Woman Opposes Divorce Citing ‘Blood Covenant’; Will Anti-Sharia Law Get in the Way?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…0. In Texas’s case, notwithstanding the bill’s reference to “foreign law,” news sources and organizations from across the political and religious spectrum—from Breitbart to the Christian Broadcasting Network to the Council on American-Islamic Relations—referred to H.B. 45 as an “anti-sharia” bill designed to prohibit Muslims from relying on religious contracts or settlement agreements within marriage, divorce, and custody proceedings. As noted, it…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…olute clarity about what “inclusion” means. I tweeted back as gently as I knew how, hoping for that clarification: I woke up the next morning to a handful of new followers (which I guess is what happens when you tweet at Justin Bieber’s pastor?), some “likes” and a couple retweets—but sadly, no clarifying response. A couple hours into the day, I looked back and it appeared your original tweet was unavailable: Maybe it was mistakenly deleted? I tho…