A Note to Megyn Kelly & NBC: How to Talk About Conspiracy Theories
It looks like Megyn Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones will go forward on NBC this…
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Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy
The “end of the world” is great for this televangelist’s business.
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Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It
The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily…
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The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right
What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few…
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Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015
This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage…
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It’s all about the apocalypse.
Read MoreWhy the Evangelical Dissonance Over Obama Immigration Action?
According to a new PRRI poll, 60% of white evangelicals “support the goals of Obama’s…
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It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More
Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.
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The Myth of the Maya Apocalypse
RD talks to Mark Van Stone, author of 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, who claims that the real lesson of the Maya is that they showed us how to destroy a civilization by stupidly using up their environment and by not planning for a bad year.
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“Culting”: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons
When the media labels a religious group a “cult,” it fans the flames of intolerance and can endanger the group’s most vulnerable members.
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