Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.
David S. Wills
· 13 min read
Religion
A collection of 121 posts
Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community
The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.
David Bernstein
· 12 min read
The Route to Re-Enchantment
Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.
Harrison Pitt
· 9 min read
The Purposeless Society
Without faith or nation, there is no greater whole beyond the individual.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 9 min read
White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent
When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
Clifton Ross
· 10 min read
The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’
Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.
Frances Widdowson
· 13 min read
The Narrative and Its Discontents
This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.
Jacob Falkovich
· 9 min read
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Matthew Wardour
· 7 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan
In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
God and the Pandemic
For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later
North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.
Barbara Kay
· 14 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
Will Johnson
· 11 min read
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read