Tag: religion
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Cognitive-behavioral manual for leaving religion
Leaving religion feels like dismantling a world inside your skull. You tear out a belief system that shaped your fears, your morals, your identity, your family bonds, your daily routines, and your sense of cosmic safety. And you do not simply reject a doctrine. You uproot an entire psychological ecosystem. This manual explains every hidden…
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Facing Jesus’ non-existence: Two approaches
Every honest inquiry begins with discomfort. And nothing creates more discomfort than asking whether Jesus ever existed at all. Once you look at the historical evidence, the silence becomes deafening. The era overflowed with chroniclers who described everything: uprisings, quacks, prophets, magicians, riots, executions, natural phenomena, and obscure cults. Yet they never described Jesus. This…
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How religious dogma affects mental health
Religion never stays outside the mind. It enters the nervous system, identity, and emotional life. Dogma influences how people think, how they judge themselves, and how they understand the world. It shapes fear, guilt, sexuality, and self-worth. Many believe religion comforts them. Yet doctrine often harms them far more than they realize. The language feels…
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The Czech national hysteria after the archbishop’s death
Dominik Duka, an archbishop, dies and the country loses its mind. Crowds rush to churches. Media scramble for every angle. Politicians race to stand near the coffin. The atmosphere feels more like a coronation than a funeral. This hysteria exposes a deep contradiction. The nation calls itself secular. Yet the reaction looks like a medieval…
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The Global South’s silent secularists: Voices often overlooked
The Global South is not one voice. It is millions. And among them are those who dare to think without divine permission. They are the silent secularists, the ones who live between faith and fear. Their doubt is not rebellion against culture. It is rebellion against control. Religion dominates most developing nations. It fills every…
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Human rights violations in the name of religion
Religion claims to guide morality, but its history often tells a darker story. When belief gains power, compassion turns into cruelty. Faith becomes a weapon. Across continents and centuries, people have murdered, enslaved, and tortured in God’s name. Behind holy language hides the oldest desire of all — control. Once religion joins power, it stops…
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Religions are best at plagiarizing
Religions claim to reveal eternal truths. They promise to explain the universe, morality, and destiny. But when we examine their origins, we discover something else. None of them began from nothing. They recycled older myths, rituals, and moral codes, rebranding them as divine revelation. From the first prayers carved into stone to the latest New…
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Women’s rights in conservative religious communities
Religious traditions have shaped civilizations, guided morality, and provided meaning for centuries. Yet in conservative religious communities, those same traditions often reduce women to instruments of obedience. They are praised as mothers and caretakers but denied autonomy, education, and voice. The result is a system that calls itself moral but thrives on control. In such…
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How banking replaced religion as global power
For centuries, religion ruled the human mind. It shaped laws, justified wars, and promised salvation in exchange for obedience. Priests and monarchs shared the same throne. Then science and reason broke faith’s monopoly. Yet power never disappears—it only changes form. When religion began to decline, another faith quietly rose to replace it. This time, it…
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No heaven, no rebirth, no return
Religions have one thing in common. They cannot accept the end. Death terrifies them. Nothingness feels unbearable. So they invent loops—reincarnations, heavens, and eternal returns. Each system promises continuity. None offers truth. Humans cling to illusions, hoping that existence never runs out. But the price of comfort is reason. The fear of endings Every religion…