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Jeffrey Tayler is a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His seventh book, “Topless Jihadis — Inside Femen, the World’s Most Provocative Activist Group,” is out now as an Atlantic e-book. Follow @JeffreyTayler1 on Twitter.

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz (AP/Reuters/John Locher/John Minchillo/Photo Montage by Salon)

Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival

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They’re all just this deluded and deranged: Anti-intellectual religious wing-nuts run the GOP

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Marco Rubio (AP/Nati Harnik/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-138841p1.html'>WDG Photo</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by salon)

Marco Rubio’s real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith — and he wants to govern by it

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Cowboy Dwane Ehmer, of Irrigon Ore., a supporter of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, rides his horse at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, near Burns, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

It’s the Mormons and the Kochs: The secret roots of white, male Bundy rage

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Religious delusions are destroying us: “Nothing more than man-made contrivances of domination and submission”

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We need a progressive debate on Islam: This is the right way to counter Donald Trump, and be honest about extremism

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Donald Trump, left, watches as Ted Cruz speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate. (AP)

Religion is the real problem: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and GOP demonize Muslims, but too afraid to take on the real truth

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Meet the Fox News atheist — the man Bill O’Reilly calls a fascist and Sean Hannity thinks is evil

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Follow Bill Maher’s lead, not Donald Trump: There’s a way to critique ideology behind religion without resorting to hate

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There’s one thing Donald Trump might have right

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Spare us the religious babble: In Paris and the GOP, the faith-deranged are who we need to be saved from

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David Brooks’ sanctimonious piffle: Sad trees die for gauzy, Hallmark-card nonsense

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A liberal plan to defeat ISIS: Here’s how we avoid Ted Cruz’s religious police state

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You know Ben Carson is crazy, right? Let’s discuss the craziest things he actually believes

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All hail the Satanic Temple: Up close with the brilliant “Satanists” who drive the faith-deranged nuts

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They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord

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Enough Richard Dawkins bashing: Let us praise a hero of science and atheism

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Make them shut up about God: The right-wing’s religious delusions are killing us — and them

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The right hides behind a fictional Bible: Memo to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — your favorite book is made up

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Ted Cruz and Kim Davis, true love forever: The right-wing theocracy that threatens the rule of law

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Bill O’Reilly’s nonsense “nihilism”: Now the Fox News host is even lying about God

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The Catholic Church’s mafioso fantasies: Why the Pope really isn’t so different from “The Godfather”

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Hatred is weaponizing Jesus: How violent evangelicals, faith-based con artists & serial abusers are using religion for the purpose of evil

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These religious clowns should scare you: GOP candidates’ gullible, lunatic faith is a massive character flaw

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