https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Ben Carson en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/16/war-meetingthis-gonna-get-dirty-anti-woke-capitalism-american-history-day-2-roundup The following is part of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/15/2022 Afternoon Note: this post includes graphic content regarding reproductive healthcare. Alison Centofante, a national strategist… Fri, 16 Sep 2022 01:36:11 EDT PRA Staff 8670bd67-6658-45bb-88d0-c484007e7382 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/12/meet-new-christian-right-same-old-christian-right It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan. Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:24:45 EST Patricia Miller 71d4c3bf-7025-4e13-8698-c0ebee5ded6b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/18/thank-you-ben-carson-your-latest-anti-muslim-rant “Schizophrenic” is an upgrade. Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:23:21 EST Haroon Moghul f9ffe779-9eea-438c-9865-91424edd177f https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/16/party-religious-liberty-botches-debate-religion-and-constitution Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible-believing Christians,” who would need the big, bad overreaching government’s protection from… Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:50:04 EST Sarah Posner 92c5004d-85c3-4b4a-b968-c718c0e1f71e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/08/man-behind-ben-carsons-secular-progressive-fixation A few days ago, Ben Carson sat down for an interview with Christianity Today. Speaking with the nation’s most influential evangelical magazine has become a regular rite of passage for presidential aspirants, particularly of the Republican variety, and a critical… Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:29:08 EST Neil J. Young 9c80184c-df25-4cb7-ab52-ad94f1d85e0d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/16/what-ben-carsons-pyramid-theory-might-say-about-his-foreign-policy Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been widely mocked in the media. Carson has typically been characterized as an anti-intellectual with “weird” beliefs and was even labeled a lunatic by one scholar… Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:54:30 EST David Krueger 64183bd2-4308-4745-a6aa-ca8ec5b1c5a9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/11/fact-checking-ben-carsons-pyramid-ism-misses-point Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that the pyramids were used to store grain. Carson is wrong. But to simply point out that he’s wrong is to miss the point. Carson’s error… Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:54:04 EST Michael Schulson 2fa1d0a0-b56d-4247-b36a-f24269e8a35b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/07/how-ben-carson-uses-secular-progressives-shield Scrutiny of the veracity of Ben Carson’s account of various events in his youth continues, with the Wall Street Journal casting doubt on Carson’s claim to have sheltered white students in his high school biology lab during riots following the… Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:01:54 EST Sarah Posner 13829791-9f0b-4360-84e4-3a2df1a4cc94 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/06/end-carson Ben Carson made his mark with white evangelicals with his 1990 memoir, Gifted Hands, and they are now the core of his supporting in the Republican presidential primary. But now that the media is picking the book apart, and finding… Fri, 06 Nov 2015 02:08:44 EST Sarah Posner e30d4e67-d312-4000-9248-cb2fcc16fbf7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/27/podcast-trump-carson-and-evangelicals-presidential-campaign This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry” to discuss, among other things, Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s appeal to evangelical Republican voters, and how Trump is trying to undercut Carson’s support with… Tue, 27 Oct 2015 03:12:56 EDT Sarah Posner ec74eb56-9306-498d-973f-a0d7fa4203ef https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/26/trump-pulls-huckabee-religion Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about. Trump, Sunday, October 25, 2015: I would… Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:11:33 EDT Sarah Posner 074b8f4a-76f4-4514-b832-59d5aa0f2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/23/carsons-lead-shows-evangelicals-care-more-about-politics-religion Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading Trump, 28-20 percent; that lead is 36-17 percent among white evangelicals… Fri, 23 Oct 2015 02:59:22 EDT Sarah Posner 7ee78dd9-961e-4a32-bf41-cfa241276133 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/13/what-really-was-wrong-ben-carson-interview-end-times When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives about conservative Christian presidential candidates. If a conservative evangelical or Pentecostal candidate talks about the end-times, everyone’s ears perk up and they wonder if, as… Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:48:51 EDT Sarah Posner 00ae45fe-2fa5-475d-bf39-1b64f66f36e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/12/guns-and-religious-liberty-ben-carson-not-authentic-adventist You’d never know it from Ben Carson’s exhortations for Americans to arm themselves against perpetrators of gun violence, but a central belief of his religion, Seventh-day Adventism, is in non-violence. From the founding of the denomination in 1863, both doctrinally… Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:47:07 EDT Sarah Posner 4f2cf3e5-49cd-4453-8fc8-f65ccae0cb43 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/08/4-or-5-american-muslims-ben-carson-interrogate Ben Carson was pushed, and pushed, until his campaign manager, Armstrong Williams, would have no more of it. “This interview is over,” Williams announced, from off-camera. Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s State of the Union, had gone too far. Though… Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:47:45 EDT Haroon Moghul 8af2a922-f53a-47df-bc48-0f85a4d83feb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/08/open-letter-ben-carson-fellow-seventh-day-adventist-stop-islamophobia Dr. Ben Carson, As a clergy-trained fellow Seventh-day Adventist, I urge you to stop singling out Islam and Muslims. This upcoming weekend there are anti-Muslim rallies planned across the country—some of them calling for armed protesters—fueled by the anti-Muslim rhetoric… Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:48:58 EDT Geoffrey Nelson-Blake 1f0b0f49-02e3-4918-a37b-f4323bed6bf2 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/22/rd-cnn-why-has-been-great-week-american-muslims RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul on CNN talks Trump, Ben Carson, Ahmed Mohamed, and why American Muslims just can’t be who they are. Read Haroon’s latest, Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia. Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:13:19 EDT Haroon Moghul b946e140-83da-4e45-acb6-f2e6dab45285 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/16/how-christian-right-can-save-america-donald-trump A few days ago, I predicted that Donald Trump’s love affair with evangelicals will be short-lived. The evidence continues to mount. Trump has declined the invitation of the Family Research Council, one of the main sponsors of the annual Values… Wed, 16 Sep 2015 03:12:35 EDT Sarah Posner aa44ffc9-58e7-4d86-8e6b-89c3031c647a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/13/why-donald-trumps-love-affair-evangelicals-probably-wont-last According to the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Republican likely caucus-goers, Donald Trump is still earning the admiration of 20 percent of evangelicals, bested only by Ben Carson at 27 percent. Candidates once thought to be easy evangelical favorites are… Sun, 13 Sep 2015 03:36:07 EDT Sarah Posner b38aecca-de6a-4edf-8a9e-781db2b4c9e8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/07/updated-g-o-d-plays-bit-part-first-gop-debate Update: On the social issues front, perhaps the most remarkable development of the debate didn’t happen last night, but today, when FoxNews apparently edited out Jeb Bush’s fumbling answer on whether as a member of the Bloomberg Foundation’s board of… Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:30:56 EDT Daniel Schultz 0a696e91-5fae-48f9-8e82-59c3551bcc61 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/11/ben-carsons-flat-tax-gets-bible-wrong Presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s claim that his flat tax proposal is based on biblical tithing is a “radical oversimplification in a number of ways,” says a tax lawyer and expert on the tithing concepts described in the Old Testament. Adam… Mon, 11 May 2015 04:06:01 EDT Sarah Posner ac4fe181-d8d7-4f1e-b22a-85c0b2ac2968 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/11/apocalyptic-christian-theologys-role-gov-shutdown Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts. Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:26:41 EDT Anthea Butler 66f2ed24-8cef-4c5a-bf9b-beb82be3e8be