Religion

We’ve all lost people. To death. To addiction. To fascist beliefs. We’ve all lost dreams of one sort or another. No one’s life turns out exactly the way they want it to.

How did religion come to be opposed to universal civil rights?

Even though we called ourselves The Radical Secular, the tone was not nearly radical enough for me. I can’t stomach pulling any punches about religion or spirituality.

September 11 was only the opening act. 21 years later we still are asleep to the threat posed by the false beliefs of religion, to freedom and democracy everywhere.

No one knows anything about any god-being. Many pretend to know things they don’t know, and are lying to themselves and their followers.

Putin’s war on Ukraine isn’t just about territory. He’s become the primary global defender of Christian fascism, and enemy of universal human rights.

Gamification of disinformation. Online radicalization of young men. How Michael Flynn created Q. Apophenia and pareidolia. The role of trauma.

Arguments about the existence of God are vapid, useless, and unresolvable. Disbelieving in God does absolutely nothing for your ethics.

Being an infantryman on the ground in Afghanistan. Christophe, Sean, and Almir discuss the futility of the United States’ 20 year involvement in that country.

Examining why nations and groups want to establish theocracies and oppose secularism. Dramatic drop in god-belief and religious adherence in younger generations.