List: The Absurdity of God | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Jan 29, 2025
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The Absurdity of God
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Manmade Gods of MonotheismHow basic history deflates monotheistic myths
Dec 25, 2019
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Dec 25, 2019
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Irrelevance of All Philosophical Proofs of GodHow proving an abstract God misses the point of religion
Jan 14, 2020
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Jan 14, 2020
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
Why Religion Shouldn’t Be RationalAnd why we should search for a viable religion anyway
Dec 8, 2021
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Dec 8, 2021
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ExCommunications
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Benjamin Cain
Why There Are No Religious Beliefs or PracticesShibboleths, social sacrifices, and apologetical double agents
May 31, 2022
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May 31, 2022
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ExCommunications
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Benjamin Cain
Why We’re Ashamed to Admit the Flaws of our ReligionAnd why secularists are in the same boat
Aug 25, 2022
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Aug 25, 2022
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Curated Newsletters
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Benjamin Cain
The Mundane God Within Us and the Illusion of Divine OversightDeflating religion and mysticism by recognizing our mind’s unconscious side
Jun 13, 2022
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Jun 13, 2022
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
Natural Sources of the God ConceptThe idea of God is a political metaphor that reflects the structure of the human mind
Dec 3, 2024
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Dec 3, 2024
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God’s Funeral
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Benjamin Cain
Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy GroundSex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother goddess religions deflates theism
Jan 6
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Jan 6
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The Rabbit Is In
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Benjamin Cain
Godhood through Cannabis?Reflecting on the peak states of clarity from cannabis
Jun 12, 2020
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Jun 12, 2020
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The Rabbit Is In
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Benjamin Cain
The Psychedelic Memory of our DivinityHow psychonauts have secretly shaped history
Feb 7, 2020
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Feb 7, 2020
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The Rabbit Is In
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Benjamin Cain
From On Psychedelic High: The Divine Terror of EntheogensAnd the betrayal by organized religions
Oct 11, 2020
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Oct 11, 2020
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
How Religions Suppress Spiritual EpiphaniesReligious divisions and existential unity: the secret of entheogens
Aug 11, 2021
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Aug 11, 2021
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The Apeiron Blog
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Benjamin Cain
The Gall of Imagining God’s RealityHow to be more than superficially religious.
Jun 9, 2021
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Jun 9, 2021
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The Labyrinth
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Benjamin Cain
Tyranny and the Horror of Being GodThe thought experiment of recognizing the plight of being a deity
Aug 13, 2021
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Aug 13, 2021
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
The Forgotten Obsolescence of FaithFaithfulness and the animistic roots of religious faith
Mar 1, 2021
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Mar 1, 2021
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ExCommunications
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Benjamin Cain
Religious Faith: A Free Pass In A Trivial GameThe role of faith in the shift from animistic magic, through polytheism, to monotheistic alienation
Nov 16, 2021
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Nov 16, 2021
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Philosophy Today
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Benjamin Cain
Is God a Trickster, Toying with Us to Make Faith Possible?Meet a theodicy that expects a solid case for atheism
Dec 19, 2024
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Dec 19, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Why Miracle Stories are IrrationalAnd why many people believe in them anyway
May 1, 2020
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May 1, 2020
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DataDrivenInvestor
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Benjamin Cain
The Greater Miracles of ScienceThe wonders of artificiality and of nature’s absurdity
May 4, 2020
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May 4, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Religious Faith in Scriptural FictionWhen propaganda spoils the magic of religious fiction
Jan 21, 2020
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Jan 21, 2020
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