Fundamentalists

By S Jonathon O’Donnell | – Are demons active forces in American life and politics? That is what a large number of evangelicals in the US believe and are increasingly vocal about. Since the 1980s, growing numbers of evangelicals have given the fight against demons a key role in their spirituality and their politics. Known […]

Christianity

Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

The Conversation

By Adrian Bardon | – U.S. Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a Pew Research Center poll from May 2020, while 62% of religiously unaffiliated U.S. adults agree that the Earth is warming primarily due to human action, only 35% of U.S. Protestants […]

Christians

Why are Americans abandoning Religion in Droves?

James A. Haught

Charleston, W.Va. (Syndicated to Informed Comment) – Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book. Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It and What Comes Next, by University of Michigan scholar Ronald Inglehart, is to be released in January by Oxford University Press. Writing […]

Christianity

White too Long? Why is Racism so much stronger among White Christians than among Unchurched Whites?

James A. Haught

Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been. That’s the message of a new book by social analyst Robert Jones, head of the Public Religion Research Institute. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity contends that white churches didn’t merely adapt […]

Christianity

Declining Religious Right could go down with Trump

James A. Haught

Charleston, W.V. (Special to Informed Comment) – Barely three months from now, the 2020 election may reveal whether America’s white evangelical “religious right” finally is losing political power. So far, early polls imply that obnoxious President Trump, the darling of born-again whites, may suffer a historic defeat. (Although I’m unreligious, I pray ardently for that […]

Christians

The Other Theocracy Threatening the United States: Far Right Fundamentalists weigh down the GOP

James A. Haught

By James A. Haught (Daylight Atheism) – Every schoolchild knows that the Ancient Mariner was forced to wear a dead albatross around his neck. I think America’s Republican Party wears a dying albatross. It’s white evangelicals who are both the GOP’s life-support system and also a curse upon Republicans. The conservative party couldn’t survive without […]

Christians

Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy

contributors

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Trump is no churchgoer. But for evangelicals, his hard right line on Israel and machinations against Iran make him an instrument of the endtimes. Welcome back, Gog and Magog. I can’t say that I’ve missed you. You might remember the Gog and Magog […]

Christians

Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Juan Cole

First corporations were people, then they could donate anonymously to political campaigns, now they control your private parts

Fundamentalists

Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?

contributors

John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border to steal jobs and rape women. The Islamic State, cofounded by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is taking over the globe. “Our country’s […]