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1 Apr 2024, 8:03 am
Said Marie Zere, "a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February," quoted in "The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement/Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans" (NYT).And there's this from John Fea, a… [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 8:07 am by Robert George
This is not the teaching of the Catholic Church—and faithful Catholics, by definition, want to be guided by the teaching of the Church. [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 9:48 am by Sandy Levinson
  Unlike the probably better known Lubavitch Chasids, the Satmars did not view their rebbe as in fact the Messiah, but, while alive, he certainly exercised complete authority. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
A major theme of a quite extraordinarily book just written by Nomi Stolzenberg and her husband David Meyer on the Satmars in the United States is that they are militantly anti-Zionist, basically refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel, founded in open defiance of the purported Biblical injunction that only the Messiah could re-found a Jewish state that was destroyed conclusively in 70 CE. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
In its 144-page opinion, the court, relying on neutral principles of civil law rather than religious doctrine, gave a victory to the portion of the movement that rejects claims that the late rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson who died in 1994, should be referred to as the Messiah. [read post]
8 Sep 2019, 5:22 am by Kevin LaCroix
  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which contains both the tomb of Jesus and the site of the Crucifixion. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 9:53 am by Eugene Volokh
As readers of the blog know, Dale Carpenter and I filed an amicus brief opposing the cakemaker's First Amendment claim in Masterpiece Cakeshop (though we would support similar claims by photographers or freelance writers). [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 2:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
” So when you hear someone like Trump or Moore protesting their innocence in the face of a long line of believable women, you should be thinking more about narcissism and a Messiah complex than doubting these women. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 9:03 am
John the Divine,” as the King James version titles it, its proper title when translated from the Greek is: “The Revelation of Jesus the Messiah to John. [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 9:25 am by Tom Smith
” Then “God’s bankers” will usher in the “coming of the messiah. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 9:09 pm by David Friedman
In truth, the Qur’an only permits fighting in self-defense, or to protect  “churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques” from attack. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 7:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  In all cases, whether one is studying the United States, France, South Africa,  canon law within the Roman Catholic Church, sharia within Islam or halacha within Judaism, most of us today would acknowledge connections between the “internal” materials of the legal system—texts, legal decisions, etc. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
So the church is losing members and it’s scared. [read post]
27 May 2014, 6:15 pm by Stephen Gottlieb
Wikipedia offers a list of predictions of the end times, the judgment day, the return of the Messiah and other terminal events, when the world should have ended. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 12:57 pm by Nadia Kayyali
Days after the first NSA leaks emerged last June, EFF called for a new Church Committee. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 1:25 pm
This principle most often arises in church property disputes, where the Supreme Court has held that courts may not decide which faction in a church is the more religiously orthodox, but it also applies more broadly to prohibit the government from adjudicating people’s rights based on theological judgments (see, e.g., United States v. [read post]