Scott Roeder’s Religion
New investigative report documents the people and organizations underlying his religious motivations.
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The Return of Christian Terrorism
Threats of right-wing violence have doubled in the past year. What is behind the latest upsurge in the movement to create a Christian theocratic state?
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Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?
After a Tennessee news report touts anti-Muslim propaganda, a mosque is vandalized.
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Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages
We are in the midst of one of the most significant right-wing populist rebellions in US history as illustrated by the Tea Party and Patriot movements. Will religious and progressive activists provide a voice and outlet for populist fear and anger or will these dispossessed voices find a home among the potentially violent elements of the far right?
Read MoreOnward Christian Terrorists; Fighting Evil in the Obama Era
Having publicly assured Tiller’s executioner that he acted in “righteousness and mercy,” affable Lutheran pastor Michael Bray, “chaplain” of Christian extremists, spoke with the author a few years back on why America is like Nazi Germany, why it’s okay to kill active abortion providers, and what he means when he says he’s “pro-choice.”
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What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Health Care
What looks like discussion about deductibles and co-pays, preventative treatment, and end-of-life care, is really about something else entirely. And then there’s all the yelling.
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RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?
Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.
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Text of Terror: A Bill Granting LGBT Citizens Equal Rights Evokes Biblical Citation
Those who cling to a harrowing scrap of an otherwise marginal biblical text want the rest of us to believe that it amounts to persecution to ask them to unclench their fists so that all of us can live together in peace.
Read MoreGay: The Superior Lifestyle
Rep. Sally Kern has discovered the secret Gay Agenda, she tells her compatriots at the John Birch Society.
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