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Required Reading: Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
The Kingdom of God is Within You is one of the most compelling and challenging pieces of conviction and courage that you will ever read. It is essential reading for anyone who considers himself a...
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Mere Christianity
Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention Boston 1838 We the undersigned, regard it as due to ourselves, to the cause which we love, to the country in which we live, to publish a...
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Inspiring Reading: Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
The Kingdom of God is Within You is one of the most challenging pieces of conviction and courage that you will ever read. It is essential reading for anyone who considers himself a Christian… and also...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Hope
Wouldn’t it be nice if all we had to do is pray for miracles? Alas, life is not that easy. Authentic prayer can take many forms… in so many acts of honesty, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness,...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Adulthood
It is patently obvious to those of us who eventually grew up… … that obedience is “morality” for children. … and that anyone who disagrees with this still has a lot more growing up to do. Next...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Addiction
Bogus faith is a lot like heroin… Your discomfort and anxiety are eased by the same preachers, politicians, and other salesmen who caused your discomfort and anxiety in the first place. Next...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Most people will believe just about anything… … and sometimes even do just about anything… … that their elders, family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and comrades believe and do…. … right or wrong… …...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Egocentricity
The entrenched popularity of religious zeal, partisanship, and nationalism… … has little to do with the veracity of their doctrines or the virtue of their moral foundations. Their popularity has...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Deviant Behavior, Part II
Woe be to those rare and precious souls who dare to color outside the lines… … entering the forbidden zone of curiosity, adventure, and initiative. Their courage and audacity are disruptive enough, but...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: The Two Commandments
The two things that bogus faith values most… obedience and conformity… … are responsible for every man-made cataclysm in history… … for every war, crusade, witch hunt, inquisition, and ethnic cleansing...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Revelation, Part I
What book would I want to be put into my hands as a child? A canon of ready-made answers? Or a book of provocative questions? Next Meditation: Revelation, Part II
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Revelation, Part II
First-hand experience teaches me again and again… … that reality is not what so many gate-keepers of “knowledge”, “morality”, and “wisdom”… the preachers, politicians, and other salesmen… would have us...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Belief Unmasked
Bogus faith is merely a claim. … nothing more than belief in a belief… … an assertion that worships nothing but itself… … and is therefore not admirable in the least.
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Supply & Demand, Part I
Bogus faith is big business… … pandering to every lifestyle imaginable. The preachers, politicians, and other salesmen have amassed great wealth, fame, and power… … by preying on the perplexed,...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Supply & Demand, Part II
The marketplace of “faith” is an exquisite symbiosis… … where exploitation meets wish fulfillment. A handful of ambitious charlatans gain fame, wealth, and power… … and boatloads of cowardly sheep gain...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Gaslighting
The preachers, politicians, and other salesmen do not profit by making their congregations, constituents, and customers comfortable in their own skins. In fact, the least suggestion that YOU can see,...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Idolatry
All eyes forward, all minds closed… All mouths shut except to “sing praise”. Alas, “the faithful” are so blind that that cannot see that the preacher is the real object of worship.
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: The Boogie Man
The preachers, politicians, and other salesmen have amassed great wealth, fame, and power… … by successfully training billions of perplexed and vulnerable humans to fear monsters that do not exist… …...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Obfuscation
Bogus faith needs to hide behind the curtain of complexity, exclusivity, and incomprehensibility… … for the simple reason that it cannot stand on its own merits. The enterprise bemuses the faithful...
View ArticleA Meditation on Faith: Patriarchy
Everybody knows that God is a man, right? Note: You who do not recognize this as sarcasm do not just have a problem, you are a problem. Next Meditation: God the Father
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