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The Religious Decade: 2000 To 2010

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« on: December 24, 2009, 12:02:32 am »


Paul Raushenbush

Religion Editor for Huffington Post, Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton
Posted: December 23, 2009 08:30 AM

The Religious Decade: 2000 To 2010


The first decade of the new millennium was marked by rapid economic and technological globalization. As the original superpower, religion reasserted its perennial influence in both national and international affairs. The following 10 stories show the breadth of religious actors and events and how deeply they affected the last 10 years of American and world history.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2009, 12:03:36 am »

September 11, 2001



The murderous attack on the Twin Towers in New York City reminded the entire world of the power of religion to motivate a small group of actors to do horrific deeds. No longer the opiate of the masses, religion became the methamphetamine. Over night, Islam became the object of fascination and intense study; Osama Bin Laden became the Zeit Poltergeist; and America and the West embarked on a global struggle against Al Qaida (while trying NOT to target Islam) with each side using religious rhetoric to shore up the justness of their cause.
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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2009, 12:07:01 am »

The Evangelical President



According to his memoir, President George Bush met Jesus through the influence of the evangelist Billy Graham. This divine introduction came in handy during his presidency when he spoke directly to God about invading Afghanistan and Iraq, and it also made him extremely attractive to "values voters" who came out in record numbers to re-elect the President in 2004. In 2008, evangelicals began to widen values to include the environment and the poor and a more complicated Evangelical voter profile emerged.
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2009, 12:09:14 am »

The Atheists



Perhaps in response to Numbers one and two, Atheism made its voice heard. No longer content to be a silent part of secularism, atheism became its own areligion with its unique dogma, fundamentalism, increasingly vocal adherents, and reigning high priests (and best sellers) of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris.
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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2009, 12:11:24 am »

The Dalai Lama Vs. China



At one point it was Free Tibet, then it was Save Tibet, now the slogan seems to be Remember Tibet. China continued to grow in influence and in its holding of American Debt (same thing). Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama became the single most widely esteemed religious figure in the world. Yet while the Dalai Lama's celebrity grew, his ability to stop China's annexation and destruction of Tibet did not keep pace as was made painfully clear by China's hoodwinking of the world in its promises before the Olympics and its ignoring of those same promises afterwards.
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2009, 12:13:03 am »

A New Pope



The immensely popular Pope John Paul II died half way through the decade after twenty-six years of leading the Roman Catholic Church. It was a difficult decade for the Church as it reeled from pedophilia scandals, and a dwindling supply of priests. The Church continued its right face by appointing Cardinal Ratzinger to be Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Ratzinger, when Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had been instrumental in restricting liberation theology and its Catholic adherents in Latin America. Yet in 2009, in the wake of the economic disaster, Pope Benedict's Encyclical Caritas in Veritate called for a new world economic order that is "more attentive to the demands of solidarity and more respectful of human dignity." Sounds like liberation theology.
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The Interfaith Movement



While Jews and Christians had forged ties through dialogue groups over the last fifty years, it is only within this last decade that the interfaith 'movement' actually became a movement and institutions such as the Parliament of the World's Religions, Religions for Peace, and the Interfaith Youth Core moved into the center of religious consciousness. Jews and Christians widened their scope to include Islam under the umbrella of the Abrahamic Faiths, while the religious pluralism was expanded to include Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and many more.
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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2009, 12:16:32 am »

The Holocaust (And Its Deniers)



Pint sized and pesky Iranian President Ahmadinejad drove us all nuts with his claims that the Holocaust never happened. Oh well, we can write off one nut job. But then Pope Benedict welcomed back into the fold a certain formerly ex-communicated Richard Williams who also claimed "there were no gas chambers" in Nazi Germany. This all fans the worst Jewish fears that, as the last of the Holocaust survivors perish, the Holocaust itself will be forgotten - or in the case of Ahmadinejad, Richard Williams, and other fascists -- denied.
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Gay Bishops



When the Episcopal Church appointed openly Gay and 'practicing' homosexual Rev. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, the Anglican Communion was rocked. This breach of family values was especially troubling to African Bishops and their multiple wives. Somehow, the Episcopal Church has remained standing and they have even named their second Gay Bishop Rev. Mary D. Glasspool. Gay and Lesbian people continue to knock down the doors of religion even as unholy alliances try to keep them out.
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« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2009, 12:23:31 am »

A Presidential Pastor Problem



Obama had Rev. Jeremiah (God Damn America) Wright; McCaim had Rev. John (Catholic Church is the Great ****) Hagee; Palin had Rev. Larry (prayers against witchcraft) Kroon; and Biden had Bishop Joseph (not serving you communion) Martino. In the age of the YouTube video and increased religious sensitivity, each candidate's religious faith and practice was put under the microscope. Rick (I'm just an average white Christian dude) Warren called Obama and McCain to his church to test the presidential candidate's moral orthodoxy for what we hope will be for the last time.
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« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2009, 12:24:24 am »

Theologian In Chief



In the first months of his presidency, Barack Obama made a speech to the Muslim World in Cairo. His words were respectful, intelligent, and unabashedly American. For the preceding eight years, anti-American radicals' best recruiting voice had been the American President. Now President Barack Hussein Obama spoke, and it was the moderates and pluralists from every religion around the world who took heart. Recently the President channeled Reinhold Niebuhr in his acceptence of the Nobel Peace prize, insisting that peace is not achieved through pacifism, but rather a just and realist use of power. The President knows his theology, worrying some and impressing most.
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« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2009, 01:07:51 am »

Sure we all need to pray to God.   Wink

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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2009, 02:18:48 am »

Hasn't it always been going to hell in a handbasket?  I am sure that people during the Crusades, the Inquisition, the World Wars and the Civil War all felt the same.
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« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2009, 06:49:03 am »

I don't view the 2000's as a particularly religious decade.  In fact, it has been just the opposite.  Our world has become more materialistic than ever.  I only hope that this devastating recession will bring us back to a more spiritual focus in the coming decade.
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