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Conspiracists have long believed that Hillary Clinton is a member of a Satanic cult.
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Is someone a liar if they actually believe their delusions to be true?
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Running the gamut from religious fundamentalists to closet atheists, reality TV scandal to serious theological debate, here are the most popular posts from RD in 2015. #10 Churches Can No Longer Hide…
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Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible…
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been widely mocked in the media. Carson has typically been characterized as an anti-intellectual…
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When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives about conservative Christian presidential candidates. If a conservative evangelical or Pentecostal candidate…
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In this contribution to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, Alan Levinovitz explores the widespread animus toward Monsanto—and how that animus shapes the work of…
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Having stamped the barcodes of all milk produced at Russkoe Moloko with a red ‘X’ for the past five years owner Vasily Boyko-Veliky has finally explained why: Supermarket barcodes are the mark of the…
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In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.”…
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