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      Even if Voters ‘Get What They Asked For’ it’s More Likely to Cause a Fascist Death Spiral Than a Lesson Learned
    • Loyalty and Chaos Play a Role in Trump’s Nominations, But This Schoolyard Tactic May Provide a Better Explanation
      Loyalty and Chaos Play a Role in Trump’s Nominations, But This Schoolyard Tactic May Provide a Better Explanation
    • Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle
      Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle
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      With no Viable Alternative on Ballot, Anti-immigrant Movement Claims Victory and Releases Wish Lists
    • New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
    • PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
      PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
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    • With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson
      With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson
    • Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
    • New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
      New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
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      Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations
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      Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military — A Man Deemed an ‘Extremist’ by the US Military
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Andrew Aghapour

Andrew Aghapour is a scholar of religion and a comedian. His one-person show Zara: An Autobiography of Monotheism is about religion, immigration, and the history of truth.

(A)theologies, Archive, Books, New BooksApril 22, 2020

But ‘Natural’ is Better, No? ‘How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science’

By Andrew Aghapour

Go to the grocery store to buy vanilla extract and you’ll be faced with an…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, The CubitAugust 9, 2016

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Science & Technology, The CubitMay 5, 2016

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Books, Science & Technology, The CubitMarch 7, 2016

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

Chimpanzees believe in God. This news, widely reported last week, is only a slight exaggeration….

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Archive, Books, Science & Technology, The CubitJanuary 29, 2016

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

For quite some time now, there’s been an irritating trend in the social sciences. In every generation, someone new…

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Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitJanuary 6, 2016

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

I have a theory: New Year’s resolutions have nothing to do with the turn of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Archive, Science & Technology, Stories, The CubitDecember 30, 2015

Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage…

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Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?
OMFG, Science & Technology, The CubitDecember 11, 2015

Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?

By Andrew Aghapour

An illustrated guide.

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Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitNovember 9, 2015

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Science & Technology, Sexuality/Gender, Stories, The CubitOctober 21, 2015

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…

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