Until recently, the mainstream (Judeo-Christian) view of gender has been a sort of biologically determined realism. This is to say that gender is not a “social construct” or anything of the sort. It is a fact of life determined at birth based on physical structures found on the body. …

I am obsessed with this line. Immediately, it tells you everything you need to know about the themes of The Fairly OddParents and the character of Timmy Turner. First of all, there’s the surface reading. Timmy Turner is completely normal and most of the kids watching the show should…

Now that we’ve hit the one-year anniversary of America’s January 6th attempted self-coup, it feels appropriate that the public consciousness is focused once more on fascism. The topic came up for me recently when I was writing my article on A Secular Path to God, where I explain how emergent…

In the spirit of Young Thug: fuck all that, let’s get to it. There is one belief upon which all of this is built. If this turns out to be false, then all of it is false. …

The problem with deception is that it entails asserting one’s will over another. In the case of “white lies”, the deception is supposed to serve the one being deceived. Yet, it is still an act of domination. It is a violation of trust in the autonomy of others, and an…

Perhaps you already know the legend of the Helots and Sparta. The Helots were the slave class of Sparta, and the cornerstone of its mindset. The famous military society of Sparta and its “spartan” lifestyle of discipline and deprivation was built around a paranoia that if Sparta were to fall…