Read on about how the talk of “gods” and “objects” humanizes the vast, alien wilderness, and how our ultimate, cosmological questions may be futile and hubristic.
Read on about the weakness of the design argument for God's existence, and why we should be humble in asking cosmological questions about the universe's origin.
Here's an article on the sovereignty of money; why we protect medicine, the law, the military, and democracy from capitalism; and the call for outgrowing personal greed.
Here's an article that explains how religion and secular delusions persist despite the modern education system that counters religious indoctrination and teaches us how to think.
Here's an article that asks what makes conspiracy theories so intriguing, and how do they differ from science such that the conspiracies end up being comparable to theologies.
Read on about Schopenhauer's pantheism, Nietzsche's Darwinian conservatism, and the liberal’s dismissal of nature’s divine creativity.
Here's an article about the simple test of godliness: Can the theist prove she loves God more than worldly things such as material possessions, an earthly family, or social conventions? If not, the proper response to her proselytization is to laugh at it.
Here's an article about monetary objectification, the unnaturalness of societies, the bureaucratic mindset, and the economist's scientistic temptations.
Read on about the fickle literary taste in gods, and how outdated myths and deities survive in vestigial traditions even as society is governed by more contemporary, often secular idols.
Here's an article about economists' equivocations, rational self-interest, happiness, and a bogus pedagogical problem for economics.
Read on about the history of religion and of our inventive personifications, and how nature's creativity outshines the symbols of our tribal identities.
Read on as I question the self-help industry’s assumptions about intelligence and happiness, and uncover a charlatan's conflicts of interest.
Read on about the social underpinnings of the "great debate" between theists and atheists, religion's ongoing existential purpose, and why our descendants will be pantheists.
Here's an article about consumerism's impact on our social functions and dysfunctions, the loss of freedom in society, and the reckoning with life’s cosmic absurdity.
Read on to compare the childlike aspects of spirituality and consumerism, and to see how secular society co-opts religious ideals with a degraded form of childishness.
