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    • White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
      White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
    • Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
      Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
    • Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?
      Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?
  • Politics/Law
    • White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
      White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
    • The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
      The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
    • Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence
      Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
      White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
    • The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
      The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
    • Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence
      Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence
  • Christian Nationalism
    • White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
      White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II
    • The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
      The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
    • Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
      Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • In Sermon on Birth of the ‘Fatherland,’ Putin’s Patriarch Kirill Equates Invasion of Ukraine with Defense of Orthodox Faith
      In Sermon on Birth of the ‘Fatherland,’ Putin’s Patriarch Kirill Equates Invasion of Ukraine with Defense of Orthodox Faith
    • Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, The CubitDecember 11, 2015

Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?

By Andrew Aghapour

An illustrated guide.

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Archive, Science, 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, 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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