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Religion Dispatches

Sanitizing Fascists and White Supremacists isn't Objective or Neutral — It's Normalizing an Authoritarian Political Project

Formerly fringe figures of the Religious and Political Right met at the National Conservatism conference earlier this month in Washington, DC to bask in their success at mainstreaming their ideas…
Annika Brockschmidt
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Religion Dispatches

Flowing Against Fascism

What Martin Buber has to teach us about community, resistance, and survival
I watched federal agents disappear three people last week. I watched federal agents abduct three of my neighbors last Wednesday in South Burlington, VT, while members of our community surrounded and…
Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst
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Melted snow turns into Ice column.
Religion Dispatches

Let's Be Honest About Who Charlie Kirk Was — But Please, Do Not Celebrate

Don’t do it. If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing and fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Don’t celebrate…
Jeff Sharlet
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Religion Dispatches

Charlie Kirk’s Death Makes Visible What Gun Advocates Would Prefer to Deny: That This Violent Culture Spares No One

A shooting is never something to trivialize. Bullets rip through walls, through flesh, and through families. Even when they miss their mark, even when they spare life but not the body, they leave a…
Eric Vanden Eykel
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Religion Dispatches

The ADL is MAGA — And the Media Should Treat it That Way

The ADL has celebrated right-wing figures, denounced affirmative action, and even aided the surveillance of Jews during the Red Scare.
Reporters covering the Anti-Defamation League’s national summit this week might find the organization’s politics confusing. First, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt will host a chummy conversation with MAGA…
Emmaia Gelman
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Religion Dispatches

TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames

Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower. A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian…
Sajida Jalalzai
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Religion Dispatches

MN Mass Shooting Teaches Us Once Again: It’s the Guns

A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people —three adults in their 80s and 18 children between the ages of 6 and 15—at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week. The shots came through a…
Rachel Wagner
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Religion Dispatches

Do We Have Christianity to Thank for Our Impulse to Help Strangers in Need?

We could also thank Christianity for the spread of smallpox, but it would be just as dubious.
Suffering is common to all; life is a wheel; prosperity is unstable. When you have wealth, stretch out your hand to the poor. Of that which God has given you, give of it to the needy. Let all of life…
Joel Swanson
Book Review
A painting depicts Columbus holding a giant cross as he lands in the Bahamas
Religion Dispatches

Lying to Save Our Lives: Why You Should Say Whatever It Takes to Get the COVID Vaccine

Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get…
Rebecca Epstein-Levi
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Religion Dispatches

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual

Last month, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—better known to most of the world as Bad Bunny—brought over one hundred million viewers together in ritual. For those less familiar with his music, Puerto…
Odalis Garcia Gorra
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Bad Bunny stands in front of electrical poles waving the Puerto Rican independence flag