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Anthea Butler caught flack for arguing the Zimmerman verdict exposed that a god-complex tied to white supremacy remains powerfully at work within U.S. society. She’s right, but I propose that the only religious response is to be atheist.

The task of religious thinking in the age of AIDS is to counter society’s rejection of the ill, the old, the marginalized.

The real problem with the scripture-encoded rifles.

A church/business model like Scientology relies on good PR—something in short supply lately.

Throughout his 32-minute set, Mangum returned more than once to the sad fate of the teenage diarist, and in doing so he created a moment that seemed at once a communal high point of the movement and a peculiarly ominous sing-along, Kumbaya mashed up with catastrophe.

Representatives of Scientology have had trouble with prosyletizing in the past.

Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.

A fine start. And now we look forward to a deeper, and broader conversation.

Pierrette Sotelo on the role of progressive religious activists in the immigration debate…

Conversion, magic, flogging, the New Third World, Muslim philosophy, Malcolm. Compelling reading, in any year.