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    • Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall
      Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall
    • School Voucher SCOTUS Case Isn’t About ‘Choice,’ It’s About Coerced Support for Religion
      School Voucher SCOTUS Case Isn’t About ‘Choice,’ It’s About Coerced Support for Religion
    • Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite
      Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite
  • (A)theologies
    • Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence
      Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence
    • Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem
      Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem
    • Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History
      Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
    • Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
      Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
    • Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
      Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
  • New Books
    • A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
    • ‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity
      ‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity
    • How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion
      How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion
  • Politics/Law
    • Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall
      Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall
    • School Voucher SCOTUS Case Isn’t About ‘Choice,’ It’s About Coerced Support for Religion
      School Voucher SCOTUS Case Isn’t About ‘Choice,’ It’s About Coerced Support for Religion
    • Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite
      Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

Andrew Aghapour

Andrew Aghapour is a PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill and co-producer of The Cubit.

(A)theologies, Archive, New 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, New 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, New 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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Andrew Aghapour, Culture, New Books, OMFG, RD Blog, Science, The CubitOctober 7, 2015

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…

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