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An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…40,118 affiliated churches nationwide—nearly 6,000 more churches than his website claims. While it’s true that Latino evangelicals tend to trend Republican more than Latino Catholics do, they still favored Barack Obama over John McCain 54-33% in the last presidential election, according to Pew Hispanic Center data. According to the Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos, although Latino evangelicals lean Democratic (44% to 37% for the Republica…

Religion Goes to the Movies

By Becky Garrison

…t of how this fear based teaching manipulates a group of people searching for meaning in a post-Communist country. Check the website for screenings….

Before His Election, Pope Francis Called Out “Spiritual Narcissism” in the Roman Catholic Church

By Elizabeth Drescher

The website of the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba, Palabra Nueva, made public this week the handwritten notes then Cardinal Bergoglio used in an address to the College of Cardinals in advance of the papal conclave in which he was elected. Archbishop of Havana Jaime Ortega requested a copy of then Cardinal Bergoglio, and was initially rebuffed. But Bergoglio had a copy of his notes delivered the next day to Ortega, and confirmed his authorization f…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…, “When the Queer Cultural Festival opened on June 9, participants were outnumbered by protestors holding signs with slogans like ‘Stop Same-Sex Marriage’ and ‘Gays Out: Homosexuals have no human rights.’” Israel: Islamic leader stirs outrage with anti-gay op-ed; government rejects anti-discrimination law The deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, “launched a scathing attack on homosexuality in an op-ed titled ‘You mak…

The Technological Apocalypse is Coming (Straight to DVD)

By Andrew Aghapour

…w-budget sci-fi film that will be released next month. Here’s the official website of the movie, where release details should be announced shortly. Trailer below (spoiler alert: look out for cameos by Alan Dershowitz AND Tony Robbins). Details about the film and its release are still hazy, but the trailer alone nicely illustrates how quickly Singularity-brand futurism can turn into science fiction. Intertwined with Kurzweil’s interviews of fellow…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…his spare time, has enlisted a Jewish friend to defend him on his campaign website. Coming to the defense of Iott, the tea party candidate who has apparently scared the bejeezus out of Republican whip Eric Cantor, is Richard Gabai, a Hollywood actor, writer, and producer known (or perhaps not) for titles such as Assault of the Party Nerds 2: The Heavy Petting Detective, Virgin High (which naturally takes place at a Catholic girls’ school and was f…

Steve Jobs Reincarnated as Divine Half-Yak

By Andrew Aghapour

…he Thai Buddhist New Religious Movement posted a three-part essay on their website describing the life, death, and reincarnation of Jobs, claiming that he also invented the wind-mill in a previous life to predict natural disasters. The essay is illustrated with enough CGI mock ups (like the one below) to make you glad, for just a moment, to be alive during this, of all possible, times. Jobs has long been compared to a religious leader himself, and…

Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors

By Caroline Matas

…ime again in conservative American evangelicalism where one must conduct a website treasure hunt to determine that a tagline like “everybody welcome” does not mean that, for example, same-sex couples will be welcomed as a valued iteration of sacred human partnership. Such ambiguity is deeply painful (and potentially even dangerous) for LGBTQ people and their loved ones, who might accept the invitation to a “welcoming” church only to be told that b…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…ce is to take them up on their offer of equality.” On the Americans United website, Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst, reflects on how this move toward pluralism may end up backfiring on those who wish to establish their version of a Christian America in the public square. Fundamentalists may think they’ve found a clever way to bring the Commandments in through the back door by invoking a “free speech zone.” They have to understand what that mean…

New Creationist Museum Undermines… Religion

By Joseph Laycock

…ed science not shown in state-sponsored museums.” Ironically, the Museum’s website bemoans that the country is facing “a crisis of science literacy” reflected by poor state test scores–without acknowledging how the rhetorical maneuvers of Creationists deliberately sow confusion about what constitutes a scientific worldview. Karen Armstrong has framed Fundamentalism as a confounding of mythos–a way of knowing that deals with meaning and the experie…