List: God's Funeral | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Jan 16, 2025
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God's Funeral
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God’s Funeral
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The Futility of Arguing About GodAnd why our descendants will be pantheists
Nov 5, 2022
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Nov 5, 2022
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Reckoning with the Horrors of God and NatureThe hopeless hero’s existential task
Dec 3, 2022
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Dec 3, 2022
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Why We Should Worship AbsurdityCharting the sublime inhumanity beyond the lifeworld’s vanities
Aug 9, 2023
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Aug 9, 2023
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Sanctifying the Crutch of Religious FaithThe perversity of this Christian virtue of faith, and the role of stories in knowledge
Aug 28, 2024
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Aug 28, 2024
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God’s Lack of Religiosity Makes Fools of Most WorshippersThe gulf between elite and deluded spiritualities
Feb 8, 2024
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Feb 8, 2024
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The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8And the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread
Oct 22, 2024
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Oct 22, 2024
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Why Think God is a Person?A debate between an atheist and a Christian
Apr 12, 2024
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Apr 12, 2024
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Philosophy Today
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God’s Pearls Cast Before Human SwineWhy the notion of divine revelation makes no sense
Jan 16
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Why Would a Loving God have Created the Dinosaurs?Pitting maudlin theology against the cosmic horror of deep time
Jan 10, 2023
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Jan 10, 2023
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Deconstructing Christianity
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A Loving God Would be Like a PedophileCorrecting the love-bombing religious cliché with a dash of cosmic perspective
Mar 19, 2024
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Art Should be More Sacred than ReligionThe stale art of organized religions makes them monopolistic parasites
Apr 22, 2024
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Apr 22, 2024
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How Religious Traditions Exploit Signal Loss from the PastThe conservative’s scheme of enchanting the distant past so it can serve as an authoritarian model
Jun 30, 2023
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Jun 30, 2023
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Deflating the Mystique of Religious LanguageThe mundane and psychedelic origins of theological concepts
Feb 13, 2024
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Feb 13, 2024
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Why Scriptures Are Still Revered In An Age of Disposable TextThe Bible’s structural advantage that has nothing to do with the idea of divine inspiration
Aug 15, 2023
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Aug 15, 2023
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The Weak Magic of Praying to GodPrayer is a vestige of incantation
Jul 7, 2023
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Jul 7, 2023
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The Many Quaint Masks of GodNature outshines the symbols of our tribal identities
Nov 9, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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The Telltale Evolution of Our Concepts of GodReligions have always reflected all-too-human concerns
Mar 17, 2023
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Mar 17, 2023
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Monotheists Objectify Nature by Glorifying GodThe telltale continuum between prehistoric pantheism and civilized monotheism
Jan 23, 2023
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Jan 23, 2023
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Monotheism as Godlessness: The Hidden Meaning of JudaismAnd Christianity’s Orwellian lie about polytheism
Jun 19, 2023
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Jun 19, 2023
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God’s Funeral
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Dead Gods can Live on as ZombiesBut as a religion’s torch is passed, old deities make way for the new
Nov 14, 2022
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Nov 14, 2022
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