The @verge's @futurepaul attended the anti-Internet rally run by Orthodox Jews. A fascinating inside look!

We don't really know Romney and we can't get a grip on his personality because he won't tell us much about the most important thing in his life: his total dedication to the doctrines and practice of a Church that teaches that white people lived in America long before native-Americans and that Jesus visited them; that God the Father has "a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; that humans can eventually become gods; and that the Garden of Eden and location of Christ's second coming were and will be in the state of Missouri.

How to overcome the huge gap between what one believes and how the general culture would react if the details of his faith were fully explained? One option: The construction of a personality designed to mimic the least offensive, nicest, all-American persona. So Romney sounds and looks like a focus-group tested model president from 1965. But the focus group doesn't exist - except in his own mind and manner every year of his life.

"Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist"

Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist

Deadline is in May for students.

Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey.
Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the serenity of its wooded 186 acres (753,000 m²) relative to the school's suburban surroundings, Drew University maintains a combined undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 2,500 students, with the majority living on-campus.
While Drew is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it makes no religious demands of its students. Many of the Theological School's students and faculty are United Methodist, and the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church is housed on campus.

Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict - Scott Atran & Jeremy Ginges http://t.co/4Pnjb25O #religion #conflict

"Religion, in promoting outlandish beliefs and costly rituals, increases ingroup trust but also may increase mistrust and conflict with outgroups. Moralizing gods emerged over the last few millennia, enabling large-scale cooperation, and sociopolitical conquest even without war. Whether for cooperation or conflict, sacred values, like devotion to God or a collective cause, signal group identity and operate as moral imperatives that inspire nonrational exertions independent of likely outcomes. In conflict situations, otherwise mundane sociopolitical preferences may become sacred values, acquiring immunity to material incentives. Sacred values sustain intractable conflicts that defy “business-like” negotiation, but also provide surprising opportunities for resolution."

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