3 days ago · Here's a dialogue on whether there's a viable middle ground in using religious symbols, between being overly literalistic and objective in conceiving of God.

Sep 11, 2012 · In the undead god, which creatively destroys itself by ever more complex forms of corruption until these fade from entropy, we isolated and accursed creatures must live as godlike, prancing in our bubble worlds of politically correct fantasies or ranting at the horror of reality.

Oct 15, 2012 · Following the principle called Occam’s Razor, scientists seek simple explanations of phenomena, meaning explanations that refer to as few...

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Dec 12, 2017 · What about a supernatural, theistic explanation? Could an appeal to God be ultimate? Of course not, since God would be a person, and assuming the theist isn’t trying to mislead with equivocations, a person isn’t something …

Jun 12, 2013 · The word “atheism” was originally like “barbarian,” “gringo,” “gaijin,” or other such labels for types of foreigners. “Atheism” was defin...

Feb 10, 2013 · I think maybe my best overall summary so far is "The Rant Within the Undead God," which I wrote for another blog. You can find it up at the top of this Map of the Rants, in the Summary section. It's interesting that you focus on Scientism.

Nov 19, 2012 · We are philistines posing as connoisseurs, pragmatic system-managers pretending to be high-cultured heralds of posthumanity. Our vaunted “high culture” is the seepage, the flatulent discharge, the stink from the decay of our paltry portion of the undead god.

Aug 8, 2015 · The alienness of bugs and snakes is magnified a trillion times over by that of a godless, undead universe that evolves until it unravels due to exactly no one’s good intention. (Even the physicist Frank Wilczek admits in A Beautiful Question that nature’s beauty isn’t exactly like the ordinary kind.

Sep 20, 2012 · How does the mysterian, cosmicist god relate to what I’ve called the undead god, which is nature’s mindless power of astonishing creativity? “The undead god” is just a poetic name for how nature appears from a position of relative clear-headedness.