On Medium: The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

Read on about the difference between the God of philosophers and the God of average religious folks, and the problem with Bishop Barron’s dismissal of New Atheism.

On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.

On Medium: Corporations Are Our Superheroes

Read on about how large corporations infantilize consumers and spare them late-modern cynicism, effectively rescuing them from the downside of the postmodern condition.

On Medium: What is a Human Body if the Universe Must be Disembodied?

Here's an article about the cosmic perspective, the conventional use of reassuring illusions, and the paradox of our apparent embodiment in a necessarily disembodied universe.

On Medium: Music for Strong and Weak Generations

Read on to compare the music produced by bands and “solo” artists, and to see how generations grow up to different kinds of music, which strengthens or weakens them.

On Medium: There’s No Final Word in Art or Religion

Here's an article about the blasphemy of believing that religious scriptures convey absolute truths, and the implications of the fact that art is never completed but only abandoned.

On Medium: “Dark Enlightenment” and the Tragedy of Corporate Hubris

Read on about the odiousness of Nick Land’s anarcho-capitalism, and why governments shouldn't be treated as businesses.

On Medium: Atheists Make Better Modern Citizens Than Theists

Read on for an exposé of the Christian apologist Richard John Neuhaus’s confusions about whether theists make for better citizens than atheists.

On Medium: Alex O’Connor’s Agnosticism and Access Journalism

Here's an article about softball interviews, truth-telling, and Alex O'Connor's centrist, access journalism, which increases his audience but muddies the waters. 

On Medium: The Stubborn Confusion that Natural Events are Lawful

Read on about why “laws of nature” persists as a figure of speech in science, and the philosophical implications of that conception of natural patterns.

On Medium: Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: Saint Paul’s Tribal Demonization of His Critics

Here's an article that exposes the numerous Christian fallacies in the first chapter of Romans, and how later apologists expand on them in response to atheists.

On Medium: There are No Relations in the Cosmic Monstrosity

Here's an article about neo-animism, nature’s pseudo-social causal relations, and the dubious slide from social relationships to nature's asocial "relations."

On Medium: Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

Read on about secular humanist reverence, cosmic horror, and how the whitewashed version of awe is vulnerable to a critique that revives "awe's" original meaning. 

On Medium: Jordan Peterson’s Sophistry Against Atheism

Here's an article about the viral video in which young atheists trash Jordan Peterson's sophistry, and how to see through his obfuscation to what’s at stake in his psychological religion.