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Since the inception of America, conservatives have regularly—even desperately—sought to distort and exploit religious traditions. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch. On August 26, during the Republican National Convention, Vice President…

Some non-Muslim houses of worship offer online prayers to avoid big congregations. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 22, 2020. NON-MUSLIM houses of worship in the country have been allowed to reopen under the recovery movement-control order (RMCO), except for those in red zones or under an enhanced MCO, said…

Five years ago this week, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign hit a snag. The second Republican primary debate had not gone well, and he was taking so much flak for failing to correct an Islamophobic supporter at a rally in New Hampshire that he canceled an event in South Carolina scheduled…

On Wednesday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that Attorney General Bill Barr instructed federal prosecutors last week to pursue harsher charges against alleged rioters. Among his reported suggestions was sedition, an archaic and extraordinary offense that implies the defendants were trying to overthrow the…

Televangelist Pat Robertson said on Thursday's episode of his television program The 700 Club that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is attempting to destroy Christianity.BLM has gained social and political momentum since the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

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In October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, the Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe’s most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. The Vrouw Maria became a…

Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t happen—after his master, Thomas Auld, became a Christian believer at a Methodist camp meeting. Douglass had harbored the hope that Auld’s…

Updated 3 days ago · Published on 30 Aug 2020 12:32PM · PAS MP Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh has refused to back down in a row that erupted over his calling the Bible ‘distorted’’. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 30, 2020. DAP Senator Adrian Lasimbang today challenged PAS…

Trump’s latest slate of rhetorical outrages began with an interview with Geraldo Rivera on Thursday, during which he made a largely faith-based case against Joe Biden. “I’m in favor of the Bible, I’m in favor of the Second Amendment, right?” he said. “Biden’s against all these things. He’s against oil…