Aug 29, 2017 | American Athiests, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Christian Right works overtime to sell the story that America is in the midst of a life-or-death culture war, with Christians on one side and atheists and humanists and secularists on the other. According to this Christian Right binary, the...
Aug 25, 2017 | American Athiests, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America |
by William Trollinger Saturday at the American Atheists Convention in North Charleston involved twelve back-to-back presentations in the (ice-cold) Marriott ballroom. Besides those mentioned in our last post, there were also presentations on: “The Threat of a...
Aug 22, 2017 | American Athiests, Evangelicals, intolerance, LGBT Issues |
by William Trollinger When Pam Whissel asked us to give a talk at the 2017 American Atheists convention on Righting America at the Creation Museum, our response was that if the American Atheists did not mind a couple of Catholics crashing their party, then we would be...
Aug 17, 2017 | American Athiests, Amish |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger This weekend, Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger will be speaking at the convention of the American Atheists in Charleston, South Carolina. Their topic is how the Creation Museum presents itself as a museum, how it...
Aug 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Persecution, Politics, Rebecca Barrett-Fox |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Today’s post is written by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, professor of sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she...
