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Cosmic Divinity and Religious Blasphemies

Cosmic Divinity and Religious Blasphemies

Why we should reinforce upbeat secular humanism and scientistic new atheism with unvarnished philosophy.

2022

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A Trove of My Philosophical Writings

An updated, categorized list of links to all my Medium articles

Oct 8, 2021

A Trove of My Philosophical Writings

Oct 8, 2021

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God’s Funeral

Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

How have the world’s religions accommodated the rise of science and secular humanism?

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Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

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Grim Tidings

Trump’s Strange Aversion to War

The paradox of Trumpism’s incomplete monstrousness

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Trump’s Strange Aversion to War

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Thought Thinkers

Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

Individualism and the futile debate between theists and atheists

5d ago

Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

5d ago

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Philosophy Today

Science Should be More Lovecraftian

Sean Carroll’s half-hearted undermining of human vanities

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Lovecraftian World

5d ago

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Thought Thinkers

Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

The dubious grounds for the pessimistic dismissal of idealists

Jul 9

Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

Jul 9

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Deconstructing Christianity

Religious Fundamentalism Isn’t Humiliating Enough

Deconstructing tribal religions, and the need for a deflationary perspective

Jul 9

Religious Fundamentalism Isn’t Humiliating Enough

Jul 9

Is Civilization Doomed Without Religion?

A dialogue on secular faith and postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos

Jul 8

Is Civilization Doomed Without Religion?

Jul 8

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Thought Thinkers

Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Donald Trump’s crassness is just gloves-off conservativism

Jul 7

Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Jul 7

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Philosophy Today

The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature

Scientists are caught between nature’s monstrousness and their humanistic ethos

Jul 7

Scientists

Jul 7

Benjamin Cain

Benjamin Cain

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Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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