Tag: theology
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What Is Religion
In this bias I am going to lay out my general approach to religion and parareligion (or “secular religion”), mostly as a base to build off of in future articles. I want to establish a general framework that can be used to analyze religions and similar philosophical structures in a comparative way. I’ve always been…
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The Romans Had Religion
This will be another hypothesis blog. I’ve done a few of them already, but basically, I’m going to lay out some ideas that I want to follow up on later, especially through research. For this subject I’ve already been pointed to a book that should be really useful — Belief and Cult by Jacob L.…
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Against Atheism
Originally published January 27, 2023 In this essay, I am responding to an aspect of the video “The Link Between Christianity & Abuse Culture” by EssenceOfThought on YouTube. What I want to respond to is the idea that faith is intrinsically bound to scripture, and I make this distinction because those without faith frequently see…
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Against Dyson’s Feynman
One thing that I think Dyson gets quite wrong is his assertion that only Christianity is very interested in theology. To state this about the other Abrahamic religions is farcical, though I grant that Islamic and Jewish treatises on the nature of God may not have been available to him at the time he wrote…