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Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Sex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother goddess religions deflates theism
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Atheism’s Stunning Upshot: Life Derives from Nonlife

Atheism’s Stunning Upshot: Life Derives from Nonlife

What, then, is the nature of lifelessness?
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Are We All Illusions that Lead God Astray?

Are We All Illusions that Lead God Astray?

A dialogue on nonduality, and Western and Eastern views of enlightenment
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The Tempest in a Teapot for Pantheists

The Tempest in a Teapot for Pantheists

The trivial difference between pantheism and panentheism
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The Sage’s Mission in a Harmonious Universe

The Sage’s Mission in a Harmonious Universe

Alienation, renunciation, and the moral calling in Hindu monism and the secular Enlightenment
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Benjamin Cain
The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

And the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread
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Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?

Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?

The irony of misogynistic scapegoating in the Muslim world
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Sanctifying the Crutch of Religious Faith

Sanctifying the Crutch of Religious Faith

The perversity of this Christian virtue of faith, and the role of stories in knowledge
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The Call for an Atheist Counterattack Against Christian Nationalism

The Call for an Atheist Counterattack Against Christian Nationalism

Eastern Christianity and how conservative Christian politics is more threatening than fundamentalist theology
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Cosmic Neutrality and the Paradox of the Bodhisattva’s Virtue

Cosmic Neutrality and the Paradox of the Bodhisattva’s Virtue

The enlightened Buddhist should be as inhuman as the universe
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Enlightened Buddhists Shouldn’t be Compassionate

Enlightened Buddhists Shouldn’t be Compassionate

Innocuous epiphanies and the false front of Buddhist morality
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The World Can be Sacred to Atheists Too

The World Can be Sacred to Atheists Too

John Vervaeke’s weaselly resort to “nontheism”
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