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Bertrand's Paradox can show us that even when we think we know what a word or concept means, we often don't. Getting a strict definition of a word through programming it with computer-level strictness can get us to see when we don't know what we're talking about. Also, Anselm's Ontological Argument sucks.
I try to answer, after three years of thought on the topic, the key moments and realizations for why I ended up leaving the Philadelphia Church of God, a fundamentalist doomsday cult that I grew up in.
Frédéric Martel wrote a book documenting homosexuality in the Catholic Church. Catholic reviewers, as expected, said the book was full of unsubstantiated gossip. I think Martel is right and the amount of homosexual priests is almost unfathomable. But more importantly, what goes on in the mind of an inwardly gay, outwardly homophobic priest?
A review about an autobiography of a man famous in philosophy of science, written by a guy who doesn't have a degree in the philosophy of science. Includes the beginnings of why Feyerabend was called the Worst Enemy of Science and why I came to agree with him.
Firsthand stories of how some of the most influential thinkers of all time lost their faith.
I tell the story of what it was like to spend (nearly) four years studying theology at a college run by a fundamentalist doomsday cult in the United States.
Herbert W. Armstrong was a doomsday cult leader with numerous strange teachings on history, evolution, salvation, and diet. I notice that many people who leave the cult tend to become atheists. Why does this happen?
Instead of the traditional approach to criticising Herbert W. Armstrong's theology, I wonder whether the end results can be seen as a poorly constructed reply to problems raised by the Higher Critics. Highly speculative, high risk of being interesting and totally wrong.
Gerald Flurry is a doomsday cult leader with some, let's say, poor writing habits. I thought he used too many exclamation marks. So I counted them.
