Tag: religion
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Religion: A Tool for Constructing Meaning, but not for Discovering Truth
“Don’t confuse meaning with truth.” — Thucydides I have a religion. Hell, I have a few of them. Honestly, if there was something akin to a “Jam of the Month Club” for religions, I’d join; $120 a year and every month I’d get a new religion to sample—I’d be all over that shit. Yummy yummy,…
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Rethinking My Stance on Christianity
A gay man, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Christianity all of my life. I’ve long argued that contemporary Christianity focuses far too much on the sacrifice of Jesus to the extent that the belief system provides a “Get Out of Guilt-Jail Free” card to its adherents who don’t want to take personal responsibility for…
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A Disturbing Trend: U.S. Media Promoting Religion
In recent months, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 and BLM crises, the news media in the United States has started pushing a religious narrative on its viewers. This trend disturbs me greatly and it’s one that gives me pause for paranoid concern. Prior to the Occupy Wall Street movement, the media conglomerates in…
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Confession of an Occult Cultist
Abstract The author’s decade-long experience in a cult ostensibly devoted to the practice of the individual will and the liberty of the individual produced a state of cognitive dissonance in him which forced his departure in the late 1990s. The rationale for remaining despite abusive treatment from superiors coupled with his eventual decision to leave…