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What Trump’s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity

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On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressedThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdayDonald Trump, who recently posted an image on social media which portrayed him as Jesus Christ (or, rather, “a doctor”), and […]

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Trump tests his luck with the religious right amid feud with pope and AI Jesus posts

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Trump appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters. Will it come back to bite him in the midterms?Donald Trump’s depiction of himself as Jesus Christ and recent spat with Pope Leo XIV could come back to bite him and the Republican party in the midterm elections, according to experts, with some newly

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‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

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Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scaleIf you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for thinking the country was in the midst of a Christian revival.Stories of swelling congregations, filled with young people returning to the

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‘I’m deathly afraid’: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

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Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendasSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereJim Pu’u didn’t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea : to leave a record of his life in

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Starmer says Tory shadow minister should be sacked for criticism of Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square– UK politics live

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Nick Timothy said an event attended by the mayor of London that included prayers was an ‘act of domination’Polanski says the government should be doing more to improve home insulation, and on the drive towards renewable energy.And he says the government should commit to ensuring energy bills do not rise above the April-June price cap.The

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The best of the long read in 2025

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Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? Continue reading…

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