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US Black Hawk Pilot Says He Has Religious Right to Sell LSD
A helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army has argued that he has the religious right to sell LSD on the dark web. Black Hawk pilot Kyle Norton Riester claimed in a civil lawsuit that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 allowed him to sell and take the hallucinogenic drug because his “sacramental use” of […]
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The Great Black Church Schism—How Black Americans’ Becoming Less Religious Will Impact Future Elections | Opinion
In recent years, research has consistently shown Black Americans becoming less religious. In a 2023 Pew poll, 72 percent of Black people identified as Christian, with 24 percent identifying as religiously unaffiliated. Just a decade earlier in 2013, 79 percent identified as Christian and 16 percent identified as religiously unaffiliated. For political epidemiologists like myself […]
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