It’s a Religion: Atheism

In my previous posts “It’s a Religion: Trans Ideology” and “It’s a Religion: Public Health,” I discussed how governments and activists use religious indoctrination techniques to propagandize people. This is typified in statements by trans-rights activist governments… “Repeat after us: trans women are women” …and statements by public health bureaucrats… “Repeat …

It’s a Religion: Public Health

In my previous post, “It’s a Religion: Trans Ideology,” I described how in the United Kingdom, the government is using the power of the State to attempt to coerce people into making public formulaic pronouncements, a liturgy of religious indoctrination in support of trans ideology. Just like trans ideology, the …

It’s a Religion: Trans Ideology

There was once a time when people understood that the expectation to recite a public formulaic pronouncement—a liturgy—was, in fact, religious expression of belief. People also once understand that teaching a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically was, in fact, indoctrination. Paired together, people once recognized this for …

Veneration of Relics

This is part of a series on the Roman Catholic sacraments. See the index. One of the common problems I’ve experienced in my interactions with Roman Catholics is that they don’t understand their own religion. They are discouraged from reading the Bible and coming to their own conclusions, and so rarely …

The Canonicity of the Old Testament

From here: The New Testament as a whole quotes from all but Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. It quotes in total 237 Old Testament passages.   Notwithstanding claims made by some, the New Testament does not directly quote from any book in the Apocrypha, although it does …