Be careful
Be particularly careful about the following four words: sacrifice, eternity, purity, redemption. If you hear any of these, sound the alarm. And if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like 'Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation' – know that you are in deep trouble. – Yuval Noah Harari, 21 lessons
Two types of religion
A father can call the deepest motivation of his child the tentative and most fragile design of his heart morally reprehensible. So he summons the energy that will self-destroy his child. There are two types of religion In one, there is a Father and He shall forgive you In the other, you shall forgive the ...
The God Question in a Nutshell
The God question is not about belief. It is about a concept. The concept of God is That of which nothing greater can be thought. Simple. It can only be Spinoza's pantheistic god. But our grammar demands that we can point at that God. In four-dimensional space, we can point at the big bang, when ...