Tuesday, January 26, 2021

On Medium: The Clash of Progressive and Evangelical Christianity

An article on why neither kind of Christianity is on safe ground, since progressive Christianity slides into secular humanism, and the evangelical kind is obtuse and self-refuting.

Saturday, January 23, 2021

On Medium: Democratizing Decadence: From Monarch to Liberated Everyman

Read on about whether democracy is wise or foolish in breaking nature's quarantine, by potentially corrupting us all with a king's power of sovereignty over ourselves.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

On Medium: The Fake Religion Behind Trump’s Fake Presidency

Another article in a series of examinations of pro-Trump evangelicalism. This one's on how not to weasel out of the reckoning for evangelical Christianity, and it's a twofer.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

On Medium: Americanized Christianity: A Galaxy Apart from Jesus

Another article in a series that exposes the nationalistic propaganda and lack of spirituality or existential gravitas in evangelical Christian apologetics, as in the case of Tom Gilson's writings.

Friday, January 15, 2021

On Medium: The Casuistry of Burke’s Moderate Conservatism

Another in a series of articles on the emptiness of conservative philosophy. This one's on how, contrary to the casuistry of Burke's conservatism, natural societies have no divine approval, and Christianity provides no reliable basis for social reform.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

On Medium: Can Christians and Atheists Disagree in Good Faith?

Read on to see how a contemptible religion can have sane and moral members. 

This is in reply to the "thinking Christian" Tom Gilson's Stream article that picked up from our earlier debate on his blog.

Monday, January 11, 2021

On Medium: A Flaw in Matt Dillahunty’s Atheism

A critique of Dillahunty's atheism and of the science-centered assumption that religion should be evidentiary as opposed to fundamentallylike all other worldviews.

Friday, January 8, 2021

On Medium: Sources of the Trumpian Ethos

In light of the Capitol Hill riot, read on about cultish zeal, warped Christianity, and the emasculation of white America, that is, about the sources of Trumpian conservatism.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

On Medium: Why is Murder Abhorrent?

As late-modernists, can we still justify our revulsion for murder? Read on as I play devil's advocate and take apart most of the reasons we'd likely offer.

Sunday, January 3, 2021

On Medium: The Orwellian Ruse of the Political Apology

This article is about how, judging from the content of their apologies, we pretend that the worst politicians can do is commit an innocent, absentminded mistake. We minimize their inherent vice. 

Friday, January 1, 2021

On Medium: Is Jesus’s Character Miraculous?

A refutation of the underlying argument in the Evangelical Christian Tom Gilson's book, Too Good to be False.