On Medium: The Bible and Quran are Proto-Lovecraftian Satires

Here's an article about the hidden message of monotheistic scriptures, and how Jews are the only monotheists who have understood the prophets’ implicit critique of religion.

On Medium: When Conservative Jewish Rabbis Hide their Atheism

Here's an article that criticizes Reconstructionist Judaism and Rabbi Harold Kushner’s incoherent argument against the reverence for technology.

On Medium: Is Religion Needed to Prevent Existential Despair?

Read on for a critique of Rabbi Harold Kushner’s case for religion’s relevance in "Who Needs God."

On Medium: Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular humanism.

On Medium: Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Read on for a dialogue on whether Christianity is deeply incoherent, given, for instance, how the deification of Jesus implies both monotheism and polytheism.

On Medium: The Divergent Countercultures of Socrates and Jesus

Read on about Jewish satire, Platonic humanism, Christian one-upmanship, and how Christians used the Socratic model as a foil to promote a Jewish prophet.

On Medium: Is God a Trickster, Toying with Us to Make Faith Possible?

Here's an article about a theodicy that expects a solid case for atheism, so the evidence for God would be ambiguous to leave room for a choice to exercise religious faith.

On Medium: Judaism Ends in Atheistic Humanism

Here's an article about how all relationships have natural endings, even Jews’ covenant with God, so that Judaism ends properly in something like secular humanism.

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.

On Medium: Christians Downplay the Need to Fear a Monstrous God

Read on about Jewish counterculture, subversive monotheism, and the implications of the need to fear the Judeo-Christian God.

On Medium: Larry David: A Scapegoated Jewish Antihero

Read on about the hidden meanings of Judaism and of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and the fate of the indignant satirist who thwarts a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

On Medium: Trumpian Israel Meets Arab Medievalism

Here's an article about Israel's Trumpian regime, the Muslim world's medievalism, and how to see past the Western Left’s one-sided assessment of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

On Medium: The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel

Here's an article about Jewish fundamentalism, the fragility of liberalism, and the liberal’s burden of distinguishing Israel from its Islamist neighbours.

On Medium: Waiting for Godot in the Middle East’s Holy Wars

Here's an article about the clash between Jewish and Islamic idols, and the absurdity of a war between Abrahamic monotheists when the deity likely doesn't even exist.

On Medium: The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East

Read on about the unrealistic options for peace in the Middle East, given the temporal clash of civilizations, and why Israel will never be at peace until the Muslim world is modernized.

On Medium: Israel as the Vanguard in a Clash of Civilizations

Read on about Islamic illiberalism, the West’s surpassing of medievalism, and Israel's hostile environment and vanguard status in a clash of time periods.

On Medium: Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?

Read on about the brutality of war in the tribal Middle East, and whether Israel is effectively punishing all Palestinians in Gaza for Hamas's terrorism.

On Medium: Is Israel David or Goliath in the Middle East?

Here's an article about the biblical David and Goliath metaphor, and how we grasp for cognitive filters to overcompensate for paradoxical ambiguity in the Middle East.

On Medium: Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews

Read on about the key imbalances that explain the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely Muslims' racist hatred of Jews, and Israel's disproportionate power in the region.

On Medium: The Wokeness Charade that Stifles Thought and Art

Read on about the ironies of history, and how political correctness stifles debates about art, as in the uproar about Bradley Cooper’s fake nose in the movie “Maestro.”