The god machine

Theists truly hate reductionism like this, it dents their fragile sensibilities, but this is the god machine: the human frontal lobe. It took about 1,333 generations to grow, and it is no coincidence that the first of tens of thousands of gods (the proto-gods of the cardinal ancestor cults) leapt into an existence of sorts shortly … Continue reading →

The irresistible, sugar-coated market economics of Monotheism

Granted, few people probably look at the histography of organised religion this way but any market analyst charged with studying the mystic industry would have seen it coming from a mile away. I loathe the word, but it was inevitable. 55 generations ago the God Business was ready to be turned on its head, and … Continue reading →

The not-so-supernatural backstory of this loving- smiting, forgiving-vengeful, pleasant-cheerless sky fairy, YHWH

For Jews, Christians and Muslims YHWH surfed existence before there was existence, sneezed six times, fashioned the universe expressly for man, then waited 13.7 billion years before telling some illiterate goat herders in the desert how to behave. That’s one version of events, the version offered up by same said illiterate goat herders and since … Continue reading →

Pillow Fights with Gods

Stupidity is a given. What hasn’t proven as predictable over the ages is the depths of sheer and utter mindlessness to which we naked apes will invariably dive to. Case in point: On the 1st of April, 2010, a sun-blistered wooden runabout manned by a handful of Somali men armed with assault rifles, two ageing … Continue reading →