Read on about how technology automates religious ritual, as computers apply programs that stand in for the obsolete priestly rites that were supposed to improve life.
Here's an article that corrects Dennis Prager’s gaslighting about social progress, by pointing out that conservatives can't support inherently progressive civilizations.
Read on about how science and philosophy ironically re-enchant the cosmos, leading to a dire existential reckoning by presenting nature's mode of productivity as monstrous.
Here's an article about how progress is an escape from animals’ servitude to nature’s wildness, and why we should be ambivalent about the decadence of so-called wokeness.
Here's a debate between an atheist and a Christian about whether there's still any good reason to think a person created the natural universe.
Read on about how “reconstructed” Christianity is effectively secular humanism, and how doubting Evangelicals look for bogus reasons to avoid the results of neutral skepticism.
Here's an article about the contrasting speech styles of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which amounts to a battle between corporate lameness and flamboyant flimflam.
Here's an article about the nihilistic challenge to morality, and how an existential perspective vindicates the humanist's values, despite the failure of religious justifications.
Here's a debate between a Christian and a secular humanist on whether values can be justified on naturalistic grounds or whether the humanist too must mystify.
Read on about Jordan Peterson's claim that atheists misunderstand religious metaphors, and how atheists can rather condemn old literary religions on aesthetic grounds.
