Following is an index of my posts on Religion which apply to religion-in-general and not necessarily to any particular religion. Last updated Feb 2019
Sub-Indexes:
- Defining Religion: What is religion?
- Exploring Religion Through the Bible : Religion for Non-Believers
- Comparing Religion and Language : Principles shared between linguistics and religious studies
Your Modular God
- Spackle God : God of the gaps
- Your Modular God : how the modular God supports a God whittled down by science
- Your God’s Components:
- How to Make a Christian : joining parts of the Modular Mind
- The Moral Mind : another God module
- The Tribal Mind : another God module
- Strong vs. Weak Theology : what binds some modules in the God Mind
- The Feel-Good god : another aspect of the God mind
- Your “God” luggage: what is inside our word “God”
- Hiding our Religious Luggage: Our secret religious life
Categorizing Religions
- Cat vs. Monkey Religions : different types of theism
- Religious Prescriptionists : don’t let them tell you who you are
- How Unique is Your Religion? : we all want to feel special
What we Share
- Insh’allah: My Muslim Lesson : Thankfulness story
- Being Not-Alive : a child tells us about not-being
- Filtering out Ourselves : we look different to different folks
Problems with Religion
- Keep the “g” small : don’t buy in to theism unnecessarily
- The UN bans you from critizing religion ! : politically correct bullshit
- Religion Does NOT Exist : how ‘religion’ is abused
- Invisibility Cloaks : sacred words hide our assumptions
- Rhetoric vs Craziness : separating crazy and religious
- Righteous Blindness : our anger can blind us
- Sanctified Therapists : secular vs sacred counselors
- Weasel Words : manipulative words
- God’s Will : generous translations
How Religion Works
- Nationalism and Religion : religious homogeneity & nationalism
- Belonging & “God” : we all want to belong
- Chicken vs Egg: Religion vs You : you settle into a denomination to match your personality
- Your Image of Religion : how do you view religion
- Religion Images: Results : poll results
- Religions and Drugs: Harm vs. Benefit : comparing levels of harm
- Story vs Myth : how do we define these words
- Compartmentalization : we are divide our lives
- Religiously Cling to Life : do religious folks fear dying
Triangulations 