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    • The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness
      The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
      Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
  • Politics/Law
    • Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
    • AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
      AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
      Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
    • AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
      AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
    • As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

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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