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Philosophy

The Useful God: When Faith Becomes Identity

When religious language does more work for political identity than religious ethics do for moral conduct, God becomes useful in ways we should all probably question.

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Philosophy

caravan of confusion

Power does not erase wisdom’s serial warnings about the corruption and cruelty that often accompanies extreme wealth; it orchestrates and sustains an institutional matrix to demonstrate why the warning applies to someone else.

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art

The Extra-Dimensional Abstractions of Religion in Art

The dancing rhythm and flow of colour and form, the interdependent harmonies of narrative and depth: the presence of Christ (here) is that third perspectival point that inflates, shapes and guides another extra-dimensional space and geometry of psychology, perception and projection. Rubens cultivates a representational gravitational node that here manifests in a recursively self-propagating representational […]

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history

Galilean Irony

Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…