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The Judeo-Christian Right Wing

There are many wonderful messages in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament–important moral messages that all of us […]

Neoliberal Newspeak II

    OVERVIEW: Additional ways to deconstruct Neoliberal Newspeak involve exposing the ersatz virtues that are often touted in right-wing […]

14 Myths of Neoliberal Ideology

1  Marginal progressive taxation fetters innovation.  That is, taxing high incomes at a higher rate (marginally) than lower incomes somehow […]

The Sophistry of Free Market Fundamentalism

Neoliberal ideology (i.e. free market fundamentalism) invokes ersatz-principles that are covertly pernicious and blatantly duplicitous.  The ideology is based on […]

Secularizing Religion: A Proposal

A point of departure is to define religiosity vis a vis secularity.  This can be seen as a spectrum analogous […]

The Role Of Secularism In History

“The true object of history is the story of the mind, not the tale of facts which are forever being […]

Secularism 101

Misconceptions Of Secularism: In his book, A Secular Age, Charles Taylor defines “secularism” as a kind of “loss”.  He holds […]

A Critique of Christian Origins

A BRIEF HISTORY OF JESUSISM (PROTO-CHRISTIANTY / NEO-JUDAISM) 30–325 A.D. 30 A.D. (+/- 2 years) The alleged execution of Jesus […]

The Ph Scale of Religiosity

The conventional wisdom posits a spectrum of religiosity where so-called “extremism” is at one end and secularism at the other, […]

Intro To Religion

Many phenomena are too amorphous and evanescent to be reduced to a discrete concept or captured by ink on paper.  […]

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