On Medium: Muddled Christianity and Jewish Alienation

Here's an article about how opposite histories produced conflicting theologies, as Christianity's compromises with paganism betrayed the authenticity of Jewish alienation.

On Medium: Yahweh, the God of Alienation

Here's an article about monotheism, God’s hiddenness, Jewish resentment, and the therapeutic role of religion for a people "chosen" to be perennially conquered and persecuted.

On Medium: Meet the Three Stooges of Monotheism

Read on about how the three transcendent deities of monotheism amount to cultural mascots for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, reflecting their founding historical contexts and environments. 

On Medium: Are We Slaves to Nature or Rogue Actors?

Here's an article about natural cycles, metaphysical dichotomies, the ultimate status of personhood, and whether people are genuine anomalies in nature.

On Medium: When You’re Too Refined to “Clap” on Social Media

Read on about how an algorithm promotes mediocrity when audiences don't all want to participate in social media's parasocial niceties such as "clapping" for content.

On Medium: How Gods Hide in Plain Sight as Cultural Brands

Read on about egregores, the fictions that take on an independent life, and how we take the new gods for granted whereas the ancients naively worshiped their cultural brands.

List of My Earlier Writings

My "Map of the Articles" has grown too long to edit. It crashes my internet browser, so I've had to break up the list into two parts: before and after Medium. 

Here are the older articles, the ones I wrote before I switched to writing on Medium.

On Medium: Seeing Through Religion’s Branding of the Sublime

Read on about religious experience, why religion’s take on the numinous isn’t the thing itself, and the benefits of a secular sense of the sublime.

On Medium: Reckoning with the Horrors of God and Nature

Read on about the hopeless hero’s existential task of reconciling herself with the inevitable horror of reality, regardless of whether the latter's God or Nature.

On Medium: Why There are No Philistines in Foxholes

Here's an article about myth-making, the existential leap of faith in life’s meaning, and why our core convictions are no mere assumptions, opinions, or theories.