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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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Philosophy Today

God’s Pearls Cast Before Human Swine

Why the notion of divine revelation makes no sense

2d ago

A pig as a domesticated animal

2d ago

Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’

A dialogue on whether religion or secular humanism best addresses the postmodern condition

3d ago

Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’

3d ago

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Philosophy Today

A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Western biases and the pantheistic reframing of the mystery of subjectivity

3d ago

Mystery of subjectivity

3d ago

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Grim Tidings

Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity

Luckily for them, liberal institutions can go wrong

4d ago

Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity

4d ago

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Grim Tidings

Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”?

A dialogue on the best grounds for criticizing some social justice advocates’ tribal distortion of liberalism

5d ago

Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”?

5d ago

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An Injustice!

Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

Familism preserves medieval prejudices and elite psychopathy

Jan 9

Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

Jan 9

Published in
Grim Tidings

The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Routines reassure us in the monstrous natural order

Jan 8

The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Jan 8

Published in
Philosophy Today

The Capitalist Tyranny of Extraversion

And other structural causes of life’s unfairness

Jan 7

Extraverted women

Jan 7

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God’s Funeral

Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Sex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother goddess religions deflates theism

Jan 6

Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Jan 6

Benjamin Cain

Benjamin Cain

18.6K Followers

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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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