Religious Right
The Perfect Victim
Have you noticed those suing against same-sex marriage are all extraordinarily nice?
7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher
Life lessons from the Christian apologist William Lane Craig.
Truth-Telling in Vulgaria
Questions for Kathryn Joyce, who bursts the international Christian adoption bubble in her new book, The Child Catchers.
Do Pro-Lifers Have a Prayer?
While the Templeton Foundation and other quasi-scientific-spiritual think tanks fund massive studies exploring the efficacy of prayer, we here at Killing the Buddha would like to offer a simpler and…
The Day U.S. Evangelicalism Died
As reported in Religion Dispatches, on December 16th, 2012, U.S. evangelicalism uttered its last breath. On this day, Fox News pundit Mike Huckabee (a.k.a. Mr. “More Conversation, Less Confrontation”) joined…
Haters in the Public Square
Thursday evening I’m driving up Connecticut Avenue on my way to my reading at Politics & Prose and the cab driver has NPR on the radio. All Things Considered is…
Why I Wrote The New Hate
Back in 2009, I published a book called Cults, Conspiracies and Secret Societies—a serious-minded but basically gee-whiz impulse-buy type compendium of odd, offbeat, and scary beliefs and belief systems. “Mystics,”…
Re: You did it!
I did it. I’m sorry. From: Christian Coalition of America <newsletters@cc.org> Date: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM Subject: You did it! To: Kiera Feldman Dear Friend, You did it! …
Who’s Amish Now?
Is avoiding the health care mandate worth fastening your clothes with straight pins?
Jeff Sharlet and Rev. Sekou Duke It Out
Okay, actually it’s not so much a brass-knuckles match-to-the-death as it is a friendly conversation about the not-so-friendly religious right. And at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, no less.…
