A collection of 157 posts
Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.
Indian philosophical traditions such as Nāstika and Nirīśvaravāda offer the West’s angry ‘neo-atheists’ a more nuanced model for channelling their religious disbelief.
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
Our secular ideas about guilt and absolution distort the language and values of Christianity.
Tracing Tehran's ties to the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
William Friedkin’s horror classic is 50 years old.
How my parents swallowed a frog to save me from antisemitism.
The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today.
How can we expect political sense or reason from people who cannot distinguish empirical reality from ancient myth?
The notion that we abandoned our old faiths and replaced them with new ones is too tidy and simplistic.
The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?