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Time to Let the Dead Rest
How the dead can rule the living. Though I try to read and engage with a broad range of thought, I often find myself unwilling to do so as much with religious texts- particularly the older, more established theologies. I wondered why it is that although I believe their denigration by humanism has been more…
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Cancel Culture! Not really
I recently watched Chris Rock’s special on Netflix, after seeing a clip of him talking about the whole Will Smith thing. I thought it’d be a funny return to the event, a few jabs and some jokes he’d been writing up in the months in between. Boy was I wrong. The Will Smith thing was…
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Sociodicy and Honest Functionalism
“Theodicy” is one of those terms that sounds less like a fundamental part of someone’s worldview, and more like the name of a very powerful sword in some fantasy fiction. Instead, theodicy refers to proposed answers to the question of why evil exists in a world ruled by an omnipotent, omniscient and perfectly good God.…
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Institutional Change and Functions
I was talking to a colleague a couple of years back, sharing some drinks in a pub after a mini-conference, and the topic got onto social change. More precisely, he didn’t agree with any kind of change that stepped out of the system. When asked about protest, he told me that protesting wasn’t an action…