The upcoming Republican National Convention is raising concerns about sex trafficking and the ‘new’ white slave trade.

Is there anything ‘new’ about white sex slavery?

Read more: The Politics of The New White Slave Trade

God as a Drug: Christian Megachurches use stagecraft, sensory pageantry, and charismatic leadership to create powerful emotional religious experience.

How does the experiential revelation of entheogens differ from ‘catching the spirit?’

Read more: God is Like a Drug: The rise of Christian Megachurches

In the reactions to the ruling, the powerful way that racial identity shapes attitudes toward the health care law, as well as how this may influence the law’s impact in the -residential race, has been largely overlooked. Comparisons between these key supporters of Romney, which are overwhelmingly white, and black Americans, who overwhelmingly support Obama, paint a stark picture of a racially divided America on this issue.

Do you think this survey indicates that ‘post-racial’ america is just a talking-point?

Read more: White, Black, Hispanic, Evangelical? Race, Religion, and Health Care Reform

t’s a match made in political heaven – evangelical Christians and the Tea Party. Starting in 2010, the two huge conservative flanks started coming together, forming what Christian Broadcasting Network Chief Political correspondent David Brody calls the “Teavangelical” movement.

Read more: Tea Party Christians: 5 Reasons ‘Teavangelicals’ matter

How and why we use God as a weapon- religion in politics from the founding fathers to the 2012 presidential election.

Was the separation of church and state a Machiavellian tactic to keep the religious united, and to prevent conflicting sects from vying for control of the fledgling nation?

Read more: Religion in Politics: God as a Weapon

For years, the government has employed the risk of “national security” excuse to infringe on a wide range of freedoms — like the right to pass through an airport security checkpoint unmolested, or read library books without Big Brother peeking over your shoulder.

Do government approved bibles bearing military insignia become national security risks by upsetting fundamentalist Islamist?

Read more: Evangelical Conspiracy? A Biblical Threat to National Security

A perfectly terrible documentary from propaganda masters Jeremiah Films.

As explained by the filmmakers: “Unmasks fraudulent cover-ups, wild speculations, and deceitful myths that have been presented as the absolute “facts” of evolution. Should evolutionism, the foundational faith of eastern mystical thought, be taught in schools as science, when Creationism, the foundational belief of Judeo-Christianity, has been expelled?”

A polemic against the veracity of science, this documentary questions everything from dinosaurs (evolutionary hogwash) - to lambasting the audacity of attempting naturalistic explanations for natural events.

[Documentary] The Evolution Conspiracy – A Quantum Leap into the New Age

Why American Conservatives Increasingly Reject Science and Rational Thought. The Tea Party has intensified social pressure on conservative-leaning Americans to shun science and academia

Why American Conservatives Increasingly Reject Science and Rational Thought

‘The very fact that his Mormonism makes him less popular among evangelical Christians almost certainly makes him more popular among American Jews. Academic analysis of the intersection of religion and politics suggests that Jews maintain a distinctly—and surprisingly—favorable view of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.’

Continue Reading: Pro-Israel Mormonism Makes Romney Sweetheart for American Jews

‘Kony is a grotesque war criminal, to be sure, but the Ugandan government currently in power also came to power through the use of kadogo (child soldiers) and fought alongside militias employing child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, something that Invisible Children seem wilfully ignorant of.

By blindly supporting Uganda’s current government and its military adventures beyond its borders, as Invisible Children suggests that people do, Invisible Children is in fact guaranteeing that there will be more violence, not less, in Central Africa.’

Read more: Lords of Resistance: The Problem With Invisible Children’s Kony 2012