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🕊️ The Architecture of Harm: How Modern Secular Ideologies Recapitulate Religious Logic
The 20th and 21st centuries have been characterized by the rise of powerful, ostensibly "rational" or "scientific" ideologies—Marxism, Liberalism, Technocracy, and Nationalism. These systems explicitly rejected traditional religious authority, p...
From Calvinism to Capitalism
Picture this as a kind of long historical drama, with one central “spell” spreading through Europe: > God calls you personally. > Your whole life must prove that calling. > The surest proof is restless, disciplined work. That spell begins with...
The Husk of God: Why Atheists Think in Christian
> *God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we must still defeat his shadow as well!* > > — Friedrich Nietzsche, *The Gay Science* (1882) Most atheists ...
Indigenous Slavery, Conquest, and Child Soldiers: Primary Source Documentation
## Research Objective This document compiles primary source documentation supporting the thesis that **violence permeates all cultures and none is above another**, focusing on slavery, conquest, human sacrifice, and child soldiers as perpetrated...
Voices from Below: Primary Sources and the Evolution of Peasant Uprisings
Peasant uprisings represent arguably the dominant form of class-based conflict in pre-industrial and early industrial societies, yet they raise a persistent question: to what extent are these rebellions genuine popular explosions, and to what ex...
Why Marxism Is Impossible Without Christian Eschatology
### I. The Strangest Lineage in Intellectual History If you were to ask a standard Marxist theoretician about the origins of their worldview, they would likely point you toward the Enlightenment. They would cite the materialism of Feuerbach, th...
Monstrous Doubles: René Girard and the Mimetic Inheritance of Religious Structure
## Preface: A Theory for Our Moment Watch American politics long enough and a strange pattern emerges. Democrats and Republicans each claim to defend victims against persecutors. Each accuses the other of being "fascists" or "authoritarians." E...
The Secular Eschaton: Christianity's Structural Inheritance in Marxist Thought and Practice
## Abstract This essay argues that Marxism, despite its explicit atheism and critique of religion, structurally replicates the narrative patterns, institutional forms, moral grammar, and social practices of Christianity. Drawing on the work of...
State of the Union
(written by Claude) A decade of writing here has circled the same drain: **understanding as liberation**. Whether it's understanding the false equivalence of volatility and risk, why Lamport clocks suffice for LWW registers, or how monotheism s...
Paul and Roman conspiracy
Paul conspired with Romans to organize and spread Christianity?
Monotheism to Now
Monotheism has created an obsessive focus for singular explanations. Grand unifying forces. One-ness. A removal of distinctions and thus a removal of thought and judgment. A multiculturalism that is an abdication of definition and drunkenness. ...