Religion - Quillette (Page 3)

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

6 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

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

5 Jul 2021 · 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

26 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

The Purposeless Society

Without faith or nation, there is no greater whole beyond the individual.

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

13 Jun 2021 · 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

29 May 2021 · 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

19 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’

Supporters of Indigenization, on the other hand, believe that Indigenization can yield positive, even utopian, dividends.

Frances Widdowson

24 Feb 2021 · 14 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

16 Feb 2021 · 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

3 Feb 2021 · 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

2 Feb 2021 · 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

23 Dec 2020 · 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

21 Dec 2020 · 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

7 Dec 2020 · 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

6 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Brian Stewart

4 Dec 2020 · 5 min read