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The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) is suing the IRS, challenging the Johnson Amendment’s restrictions on churches endorsing political candidates, arguing it unfairly silences them and infringes on free speech rights.
After a week of political violence in the United States, weekend editor Eric O. Scott addresses the need for Pagans – and Pagan publications – to engage in political action.
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It happened a little over a year ago. Suddenly, there was a dead church. It socially collapsed, right there, at the end of my street.
[Karl E. H. Seigfried is the author of The Norse Mythology Blog, named the world’s Best Religion Weblog in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He wrote all Ásatrú definitions in the Religion Newswriters Association’s Religion Stylebook and has written on myth and religion for the BBC, Herdfeuer, Iceland Magazine, Interfaith Ramadan, MythNow, On Religion, Religion and Ethics, and Reykjavík Grapevine. He currently teaches courses for the Newberry Library’s Continuing Education Program while working on his fourth degree, an MA in Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.]
In the online world of Ásatrú and Heathenry, the reprimand “stop mixing religion and politics” is a regular refrain. On Facebook and Twitter, on blogs and websites, in discussion groups and comment sections, accusations are often made that a given individual or group is polluting the religion with personal political bias. This phenomenon is not specific to a particular position; invective is hurled from both ends of the political spectrum.