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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…y work as an atheist and interfaith activist. In the wake of the horror I reached out to friends directly and logged on to Twitter to express my shock, outrage, disgust, and sadness—as a Millennial, I suppose you could say this is one way I engage in the collective processing of such traumas. Within minutes of my first tweet, I began to get responses from other atheists saying that interfaith work is bad, that I should be more concerned about athe…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…. the Virgin Mary) (rus. Богородица Bogoroditsa) to “put Putin away” and “become a feminist”. The song repeats “the Lord’s shit” throughout the choruses, presumably referring to representatives of the Church; while the Russian Patriarch, Kirill I of Moscow, is described as someone who believes in Putin rather than in God. Kirill had showed open support for Putin as a candidate before the presidential election. Although the international community,…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…ource for their respective actions. Ledger’s Joker is different from his predecessors’ in that the former does not seem to have a personal narrative or a telos (purpose) that could help guide predictable action, much less the moral kind. In the Batman comic book series the Joker’s wife and child are accidentally killed, after which he falls into a vat of chemical waste that disfigures him. These narrative elements help explain the Joker’s insanity…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…s 86th birthday also happened to appear on Easter Sunday, one of the most sacred days for Christians the world over. Responses ranged from mild disappointment to vows to replace Google with search engines like Bing (which decorated its homepage with Easter eggs). But what underlies nearly all the comments is the assumption of the whiteness of U.S. Christianity alongside the pairing of brownness with particular political agendas. In this instance,…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…monolith, and there is no universally recognized religious leadership, it becomes hard for someone to come forward to act as a gatekeeper. Even if there were Catholic-style hierarchy, you can imagine the type of games that could be played with granting access to use of the domain. For example, would nuns invested in social justice be allowed to register under “.catholic”? In the case of Muslims, we don’t know who is registering these gTLD and to…

Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…izito Lwanga and Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga, indicated. The clerics also appealed to all the churches in the country “to remain steadfast in opposing the phenomena of homosexuality, lesbianism and same-sex union.” The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, known by many as the “kill-the-gays bill,” is one of the most notorious pieces of legislation in the world. It is backed by First Lady Janet Museveni and legislators with close ties to the American religious r…

NC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”

By Anthea Butler

…eashed a stream of invectives from fundamentalist pastors hoping to one-up each other on their homophobia. None, however, could outdo the most recent contestant to the fray, Pastor Charles Worley, who said that lesbians and gays should be “penned up with a fence, and food dropped down to them. In a couple of years, they would die, because they can’t reproduce.” Meanwhile, don’t bother to look up the church’s website. Thankfully, the web designer r…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ng Province, Chen, who lost his sight as a child, nevertheless managed to teach himself Chinese law. He acquired a reputation as an advocate who was willing to go to court on behalf of his neighbors. He became aware that many of the women in his village were being forced to abort and undergo sterilization. In 2005 he exposed these coercive tactics. Forced abortions and sterilizations are illegal in China under a 2002 law that gives individuals the…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…the forty prayers Kromenaker and her staff had put in the windows—one for each day of the anti-abortion campaign: Day 1: Today we pray for women for whom pregnancy is not good news, that they know they have choices. Day 19: Today we pray for all pregnant women. May they be surrounded by loving voices. Day 30: Today we pray for women to throw away their secrets and claim their histories with power and truth. The woman tapped her “40 Days for Life”…

On MSNBC RD Editor Discusses Trayvon Martin

By The Editors

…RD contributing editor Anthea Butler, who wrote about Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism this week, appeared on Melissa Harris Perry’s MSNBC program this morning to talk more about the tragic shooting and its aftermath. Visit msnbc*]}*.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…