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A rural Georgia Guidestones monument that some conservative Christians criticized as satanic and others dubbed “America's Stonehenge” was demolished Wednesday after a predawn bombing turned one of its four granite panels into rubble.

Many white evangelicals, said the former head of the National Institutes of Health, have been ‘victimized by the misinformation and lies and conspiracies that are floating around."

A new report from the Anti-Defamation League shows that while Facebook has removed major Holocaust denial posts on its platform, gaps in enforcing its ban remain one year after it went into effect.

The film “Enemies Within the Church” has been making waves for its bold claims about the pervasive presence of Marxism within American Christianity. The film names as “enemies" a number of influential evangelical institutions, as well as a diverse group of individuals, from Bill Johnson to Albert Mohler.

On Friday, tragedy struck during a Travis Scott performance, as eight people died and hundreds of others were injured. Now, a conspiracy theory is circulating that the deaths were a result of Scott's participation in a satanic ritual.

According to reports, many at the recent QAnon gathering were regular churchgoers who see QAnon conspiracy theories as integral to their faith.

This is about more than partisan politics. If we want to better understand and address the popularity of conspiracy beliefs, we need to look toward religion and the nature of belief itself. 

About half of all Protestant pastors in the United States say they're hearing conspiracy theories in church, according to a study released Tuesday (Jan. 26) by LifeWay Research.