The Didact takes a look at one of the heresies that nearly tore apart the church and western civilization. One that bears more than a few similarities to today [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-distant-mirror-of-heresy.html]. It came to a very sobering end: > The Cathar Heresy ended with the massacre of thousands of followers of their pseudo-religion and the burning alive of over 200 Cathar prefects. It resulted in the establishment of the Inquisition, a deeply maligned and thoroug…
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Vox Day takes a look [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-he-was-wrong-about-christianity.html] at Tom Howard’s journey from religion, and back, adding this tidbit: > And it occurs to me that one of the keys to the success of the Alt-West is going to be a) Christians realizing that Churchianity is not Christianity and driving it out of their institutions and places of worship combined with b) non-Christians realizing that Christianity is, far from being a societal negative, a societal nece…
One of the things I admire about Stefan Molyneux is his ability to face things he doesn’t like. One of these areas has been his recent set of videos discussing religion in a positive light (something he incidentally shares with Scott Adams). In this one, he discusses what evidence exists to point toward the existence of the divine. To refer back at first to Scott Adams, I’m not one for the meat-robot theory. I fully acknowledge we are not rational, often are run by our subconscious, and at a ve…
It’s been a long time on this rock, and I’m sure in five or ten years, I’ll think I’m even wiser. Or at least learned a few more lessons the hard way. Nevertheless, I was watching an interview with Scott Adams and Stefan Molyneux [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsH17taSBzo], and I was floored by the number of threads that came together for me that I’d been mulling a while. First – background – I’ve been through most of the political spectrum at one time or another, in search of truth. I’ve lef…