Rants Within the Undead God
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

On Medium: Is Theology as Rational as Science or as Arbitrary as Art?

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Read on about Richard Swinburne’s pseudoscientific defense of theism, and about the true status of philosophy as a discipline that stands b...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

On Medium: Life’s Key Secrets are Theatrical

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Here's an article about how the theater is an existential extended metaphor, with its concepts of the curtain call, and of the suspensi...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

On Medium: The Flaw in Goethean Pantheism

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Read on about Goethean versus humanistic pantheisms, and why we should critique the 18th C. Tobler essay despite its anticipation of Darwin...
Monday, February 26, 2024

On Medium: Christianity Demonizes Modern Progress

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Read on about how Christianity demonizes the Promethean, progressive aspects of modernity, while making superficial peace with humanistic p...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

On Medium: What Trumpers Share with the OJ Simpson Jurors

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Read on about what Trump's supporters have in common with the OJ Simpson jurors: a thirst for vengeance amid the breakdown of civic dut...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

On Medium: Why are Sacred Spaces so Easily Spoiled?

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Read on about irony of how mass attention defiles what’s cool, and how the privacy of consciousness is likely the model for the vulnerabili...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

On Medium: The Classical Theist’s Naïve Optimism about Reason

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Read on about a classical theist's so-called best argument for God's existence, and the religious games we play to avoid facing the...

On Medium: Should Trump be a Hero to Generation X?

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Read on about personal authenticity, the paradox of Trump’s character, and whether Trumpism reduces existentialism and the values of Genera...
Monday, February 19, 2024

On Medium: People are Anti-Natural, not Supernatural

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Here's an article about the question of dualism between mind and matter, Descartes’ last laugh in the divide between wild things and ar...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

On Medium: Why the Trumpian Grotesquery is Happening Now to America

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Read on about unconscious consumerism, our outpouring of collective narcissism, and how even Trump's enemies promote him as a symbol of...
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