A Galaxy Not So Far Away

I have little patience for pseudo-reasoning. I object to hearing it from secularists just as strenuously as I object to hearing it from Christians.

Destroying the Environment

This creature, ostensibly for the sake of survival, spends its time wreaking havoc on the landscape, tearing up the earth, leaving enormous amounts of waste in its aftermath, and radically changing the world for the other creatures with whom it happens to share its environment.

Misinformation About Misinformation

Now, more than ever, it is critical for us to be perceptive and wise. If we don’t decide here and now that truth is our ultimate pursuit, then I fear that we will watch the world around us disintegrate into self-destruction. And a lot of people are going to suffer.

The System Doesn’t Want to Be Fixed

Consider the absurdity of endeavoring to change a system whose most fundamental premise is that the system shall not be changed.

The Factory

In the factory, the workers either sit quietly in the training room with their backs to each other or stand at their place in the assembly line doing rote tasks. The manager is generally the only one who speaks. Sometimes, he calls on someone to voice his opinion, but the context of the question leaves little room for free expression. The leading question usually invites an answer that corroborates the manager’s opinion.

Fighting Against the System

The creative power of humans is astonishing. I’m not referring to creativity in the artistic sense, but rather in the sense of our ability to create spiritual entities that wield a tremendous amount of influence over human actions. We refer to these entities as Institutions. Now I’m not suggesting that in creating institutions we create …

The Problem With Certainty

When an ideology does not permit opposing viewpoints, the resulting behavior often turns bitter, resentful—even violent.

A Shaky Foundation

When we support assertions with other assertions, the only people who will accept what we have to say are those who already agree with us, and simpletons who can’t be bothered with applying any intellectual rigor to what we are saying.

Good Enough for Me

Never having been one to shy away from overstating the obvious, I can authoritatively state that I’m pretty critical of religion.  For the last two and one half years, this blog has been primarily dedicated to dismantling the lies and the walls of religion, and encouraging people to seek God outside the guilt, coercion, dogma, …

An Evidence-Based Approach

As we try to navigate a confusing world, some approaches to life seem to be more useful than others.  One approach is to adopt a cultural narrative as a starting point and then interpret life events through your cultural lens.  A better approach is to use evidence to determine the correctness of the cultural narrative. …