Theme: Religion

  • “There is no such thing as the Islamic Golden Age, when it was if anything a Per

    –“There is no such thing as the Islamic Golden Age, when it was if anything a Persian (Iranian) Golden Age that was due to the import of Greek Thought, and was ended by Arab fundamentalism of Al-Ghazali.”–

    Almost all the thinkers were Iranian and only outwardly muslim out of self preservation. At the time egypt and syria are majority christian.

    It’s more about her guest, but it’s accessible.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-19 20:30:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002114328623976458

  • Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (E

    Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (European: truth before face, East Asian: Face before truth, Semitic: facelessness – it’s still admirable to ‘get away with’ something. ‘The ethics of the bazaar.’) Africa never progressed until christianity beyond the ethics of the four family types so it’s not easy to discuss their ethics. Christianity was a reform using theology (semitic mythicism) as a means of making semitic peoples capable of cooperation sufficient to resist the european-persian (indo european) superiors. Talmudic Judaism was a revolt that attempted to adopt western rule of law in semitic terms. Islam was a revolt against the corruption of their tribal elders during the period where europe and persia had exhausted themselves. Fundamentalist islam was a revolt against the introduction of european thought into semitic civilization. The reasons for these revolts are largely understood as natural conflicts between populations with vastly different intelligence, institutions, and trust for ancestral reasons. Unfortunately, when the middle east converted to christianity it made progress, but the barbarism of islam – the most backward people in the region – resulted in the most digressive group strategy on earth – which is why islamic cultures is the last to adapt to modernity.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:30:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001766966202359952

  • I don’t understand ‘fault’ in this context. Sorry. The ‘white man’s burden’ stil

    I don’t understand ‘fault’ in this context. Sorry. The ‘white man’s burden’ still lives in the western and christian subconscious, partly because it was the only known solution to the post-world-war era: “either bring the world along or watch it suicide by the false promise of communism and the result wars.” We brought the world along – sometimes kicking and screaming – but modernization benefitted everyone.
    The problem is we don’t tax the world for this service, and as such we can no longer pay for it.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 20:50:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001757034375704771

  • Stained glass does not compensate for the christian destruction of the civilizat

    Stained glass does not compensate for the christian destruction of the civilization, architecture, arts, and letters of the ancient world, and the increase in superstition and ignorance spread under christianity.
    We are still fighting to exit the lies and universalism of the abrahamic religions and their implicit devolutionary totalitarianism of the ignorant.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-06 00:03:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1997094597072494933

  • Curt’s Position on Abrahamic Religions Curt Doolittle, a philosopher and social

    Curt’s Position on Abrahamic Religions

    Curt Doolittle, a philosopher and social scientist associated with the Natural Law Institute, critiques Abrahamism—encompassing Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and their secular offshoots like Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism—as a unified “group evolutionary strategy” of deceit, parasitism, and civilizational sabotage. He argues it represents the “greatest crime in human history,” a sophisticated system of lying that inverts values, promotes dysgenia, and undermines advanced societies, particularly Indo-European (Aryan/European) civilizations, by exploiting feminine cognition, underclass resentments, and false promises of salvation or equality without warranty.
    This critique is rooted in his framework of “Natural Law,” which emphasizes reciprocity, truth-telling, empirical warrantability, and evolutionary adaptation, contrasting sharply with what he sees as Abrahamism’s irreciprocity, superstition, and stasis.

    Core Arguments Against Abrahamism

    Doolittle portrays Abrahamism as an “innovation in lying” that emerged from Semitic (Levantine/Irano-Semitic) roots in response to Indo-European conquests around 3300 BCE. It uses dualism (e.g., illusory world vs. transcendental realm) to negate defeat and reality, creating a “great lie” of original sin, eschatological redemption, and polyethicalism (different moral standards for in-group vs. out-group).
    Key mechanisms include:
    • Deception Technologies: Pilpul (positive sophistry: loading, framing, obscurantism, fictionalism) and Critique (negative undermining: gossiping, shaming, rallying, ridiculing, moralizing—GSRRM). These produce neurochemical addiction to emotional indulgence, institutionalizing falsehoods via pseudoscience (e.g., Freudian psychology, Boasian anthropology, Marxist economics) and propaganda (repetition, straw-manning, confirmation bias exploitation).
    • Inversion of Values: As “slave morality,” it reverses Indo-European heroism, agency, and life-affirmation into self-pity, victimhood, and resentment of the strong. It condemns man’s primacy (“anthropos o nomos tou kosmou”—man as measure of the world) by reducing humans to dust/serfs in a decaying creation, rejecting progress, technology (anti-Promethean), and natural selection as sinful. History is negated as a “vale of tears” for expiation, with eschatology mirroring Marxist class struggle toward a utopian end.
    • Dysgenic and Parasitic Effects: Promotes egalitarianism, negative selection (e.g., clerical celibacy, asceticism, wars favoring inferiors), and demographic suicide via low birth rates, immigration of unfit populations, and tolerance of hostile systems. It fosters primitivism, neurosis, and regression by devaluing beauty (as racial fitness markers) and suppressing transcendence (self-overcoming to “superman”). Economically and politically, it enables free-riding, moral hazard, and parasitism (e.g., usury, black markets, financialization), creating debt systems that externalize costs onto producers.
    • Feminine and Underclass Appeal: As a “female strategy,” it weaponizes herd consensus, consumption without competition, and anti-heroic narratives (victim-heroes like Jesus or Mohammed) to rally women and low-agency groups against masculine hierarchies, reciprocity, and meritocracy.Leftism (feminine cognition) projects denial and lacks agency, while rightism (masculine) builds via pack competition and capitalization.
    He calls for its prosecution as war crimes, demanding restitution, punishment, and prevention, viewing it as “outright evil” and a “cancer to mankind” responsible for ignorance, deceit, and billions of deaths.
    Critiques by BranchDoolittle differentiates the roles within Abrahamism’s “tripartite strategy” of subversion:
    Key Critiques
    Judaism: Undermining from within: Uses gossip, nepotism, sophistry, and alliances with states against peoples; avoids truth, creates “conspiracies of common interest”; verbal intelligence enables parasitism (e.g., tax farming, media control); revolts against demonstrated inferiority to Greco-Roman innovations.
    Christianity: Weakening through submission: False promises of afterlife salvation, universalism, and forgiveness beyond kin; creates vulnerability to deception and conquest; dysgenic via celibacy and asceticism; Germanic adaptations mitigated some harms, but core Semitic elements persist, causing Dark Ages by suppressing empiricism.
    Islam: Consuming and destroying: Predatory raiding, population replacement, and conquest; spreads ignorance, impulsivity, and stagnation; destroys civilizations (e.g., Persian, Byzantine) via illiteracy and obedience; most overtly violent branch.
    Secular Derivatives (e.g., Marxism, Feminism, Postmodernism)
    Modern revisions
    Abrahamism v2–v6: Class/gender/race struggle as eschatology; infantilism, victimhood, and anti-white resentment; industrializes lies via pseudosciences and policies (e.g., 1965 Immigration Act, affirmative action) to expand underclasses and debt.
    Historical Context and Comparisons
    Abrahamism arose in desert nomadic psyches (intolerant, absolutist) post-Neolithic Indo-European invasions, using monotheism to reject civilization (e.g., Abraham/Moses as anti-urban nomads).
    It caused cycles of destruction: Dark Ages (500–1500 CE: literacy decline, innovation halt, 1B deaths); 20th-century wars (100M from Communism/Leftism); current instability via demographic shifts and pseudosciences.
    In contrast, Indo-European traditions (pagan, Aristotelian, Stoic) affirm life, truth, heroism, and eugenics through reciprocity, empirical warrant, and cyclical adaptation.


    Eastern wisdom (Hinduism/Buddhism) is escapist but less aggressive; Chinese strategies evade but adopt Aryan empiricism successfully.
    Nuances in Doolittle’s View
    He clarifies he’s “not anti-Christian” but anti-Abrahamic (lying) elements, appreciating Jesus’ solution to the prisoner’s dilemma: extending kinship love via forgiveness and non-aggression to enable underclass cooperation in Greco-Roman contexts.
    The Jefferson Bible suffices without supernatural fraud.
    He works from an “aristocratic position” to elevate from bad to excellent via science, not peasant sedation.
    Abrahamism may provide mindfulness for some, but it’s incompatible with truth and evolution.
    [END]


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-04 21:42:40 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1996696682290204973

  • Religions survive because they provide a group strategy for large populations, a

    Religions survive because they provide a group strategy for large populations, a standard of weights and measures for behavior avoiding conflict, and the mindfulness that results as populations and anonymity and therefore risk scale.
    We have developed ‘work’ since the agrarian age. We developed scale after the bronze age collapse. We developed coinage that allowed abstract economic relationships. We developed religion to homogenize people who cooperate and trade by expanding these non-kin networks. We developed rules (early laws) to enforce those rules. We developed law (laws proper) to resolve conflicts between increasingly abstract relationships with people across increasingly different abilities and interests. We developed political systems, early accounting, then writing, to continue to organize these abstract relationships with promises and measurements and punishments for violation.
    And while the evolution of these technologies provided us with a division of labor, wealth sufficient for experts and innovators and transport and trade, and a rapid increase in available institutions, machines, tools, goods, services, and information and a decline in the cost of all of them, the result is alienation.
    When political religion failed to reform in response to the industrial revolution we found political ideology to replace it.
    Which did not unify us as did religion.
    It divided us.
    There is only one non false religion that unifies: the respect of the natural law of cooperation, the worship (thanks for the debt of) our ancestors, our heroes, our people, and nature. For those are the only non-false debts we bear in common, and the only non-false debts that bind us to one another in a willingess for support, care, and yes, redistribution.
    Let a thousand nations bloom.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute


    Source date (UTC): 2025-11-12 15:49:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1988635170497540232

  • Aristotle alone is the greatest contributor to human history. And yes that’s an

    Aristotle alone is the greatest contributor to human history. And yes that’s an empirical judgement. Unfortunately the equally influential characters (jesus and mohammed) were producing a counter-revolution against greco-roman-persian aristocratic thought which required a higher level of trust than middle easterners could possibly practice. The persians, despite their advantage, lost it because of Islam. The romans lost it because of christianity and invasion. But Europe pulled out of its dark age. The rest of the world, which islam is hostile to (and perhaps judaism as well), is attempting to either constrain islam from further damage, or in europe’s case, cause it to reform as europeans reformed christianity in to secular natural law.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-11-06 16:36:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1986472768339321302

  • Dismantling the Transcendental Argument for God Cornelius Van Til’s Transcendent

    Dismantling the Transcendental Argument for God

    Cornelius Van Til’s Transcendental Argument for God (TAG) claims that the triune Christian God is the necessary precondition for intelligibility itself — that logic, morality, science, and the uniformity of nature all depend on God’s existence.
    Formally:
    1. Human experience is intelligible.
    2. Intelligibility requires preconditions.
    3. Only the Christian God provides those preconditions.
    4. Therefore, the Christian God exists.
    At first glance, this sounds like a rigorous “transcendental necessity.” But upon examination, it collapses into a series of conflations and circularities.
    1. Confusion of Epistemic and Ontological Necessity
    Van Til mistakes the
    conditions of knowing for the conditions of being.
    Cognition demands rules of inference consistent with perception and memory; it does not require a divine ontology. Logic emerges from the structure of perception and the requirement that actions and predictions remain internally coherent within a stable universe. The world need only be
    regular for thought to be possible — not personal.
    2. Circular Definition Masquerading as Transcendence
    The claim that intelligibility “presupposes” God rests on defining intelligibility as that which presupposes God. It is a definitional recursion — the conclusion smuggled into the premise. A genuine transcendental argument must demonstrate
    non-substitutability: that no other framework could produce the same coherence. TAG never does.
    3. Equating Universality with Divinity
    Uniformity in nature is a property of empirical observation, not a metaphysical attribute. Regularity arises because causal relations conserve quantities; no deity is required. The leap from “the universe is orderly” to “the universe is personal” is theological poetry, not reasoning.
    4. Failure of Transcendental Closure
    Alternative frameworks — operational realism, constructivist epistemology, and Natural Law — all produce intelligibility without invoking God. Each grounds logic, morality, and science in the invariances of perception, cooperation, and causality. Because multiple coherent closures exist, TAG fails the test of necessity. It’s a preference, not a proof.
    5. Anthropomorphism of Causality
    By insisting that logic and morality must be “personal,” Van Til projects human social intuitions onto the structure of reality. But the universe is not moral or emotional; it is recursive and consistent. Reciprocity, not personality, governs interaction. Logic, causality, and morality are relational constraints — not divine attributes.
    If we restate the problem operationally, the need for a deity evaporates.
    • Intelligibility arises from the consistency of relations between perception, memory, and feedback.
    • Logic codifies invariances of action — identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle.
    • Morality operationalizes reciprocity as the condition for sustainable cooperation among actors with limited resources.
    • Science extends operational verification to external phenomena.
    • Uniformity of nature reflects conservation and causal closure, not metaphysical decree.
    In short, intelligibility is not bestowed; it is earned through adaptation to a consistent reality. The universe’s order is not the product of a will, but the consequence of constraints: survival.
    I can’t take the time to go into my work and Wolfram’s explanation of how the laws of the universe are those that survive the chaos of expansion vs entropy, or I would build the argument from there. It is quite possible that the laws of the universe at all scales are the only possible survivable rules for this and any universe. At present we simply cannot observe the universe at smallest scales and we are obstructed by the past 50+ years of ‘mathiness’ in physics brought on by cantor, bohr, and einstein. So given science advances with tombstones, and it appears the best research in physics (like my own work) is conducted outside of the academy (Perimeter institute for example), we may see some reformation in physics – and perhaps settle this question – sometime in the next generation (or so).
    That said, in summary, TAG converts necessity into personality, causality into theology, and coherence into creed. It is not a transcendental argument but a rhetorical insurance policy — an attempt to make disbelief seem incoherent by definition.
    The truth is simpler and more elegant:
    The laws of the universe are consistent: deterministic.
    Intelligibility does not require God; it requires consistency.
    And consistency, unlike divinity, can be tested.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-11-01 03:25:40 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1984461813275377978

  • It’s just the fantasy of Feminine universal authoritarianism by baiting into haz

    It’s just the fantasy of Feminine universal authoritarianism by baiting into hazard. Same as abrahamic religions. Same as the marxist sequence of pseudo-religions.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-29 18:28:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1983601950114615508

  • HOW WE DEFINE “LOGOS” I avoid the term to prevent conflation with the supernatur

    HOW WE DEFINE “LOGOS”
    I avoid the term to prevent conflation with the supernatural, but Brad uses it consistently and correctly to demonstrate the continuity of thought across time.

    In our work, Logos doesn’t mean merely “word” or “speech” in the biblical sense — it refers to the structure of reality that binds matter, mind, and meaning into a self-consistent, computable order.

    To unpack it operationally:

    Etymologically: Logos in Greek philosophy (Heraclitus → Aristotle → Stoicism → Christianity) meant the rational principle organizing the cosmos — the grammar of being (existence and experience).

    Within this framework: Logos = law of laws — the recursive, self-verifying grammar that allows truth, reciprocity, and cooperation to converge across all scales. (consistent, coherent, laws of the universe: logical, physical, biological, behavioral, evolutionary.)

    At Maturity: Law “becomes Logos” when human systems (legal, computational, neural) reflect the same causal and reciprocal order as nature itself. Civilization, mind, and machine operate under a single testable logic — the computational grammar of reality.

    Operational definition: Logos is the fully closed feedback between measurement, computation, and cooperation — the state where truth and law are self-auditing, eliminating parasitism and error through reciprocal verification.

    So, in short:

    Logos = the realized unity of natural law, logic, and computation — the consciousness of the universe made explicit through reciprocal systems (human or artificial).

    CD

    (via
    @WerrellBradley
    – Brad Werrell)


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-21 16:17:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1980669860574376398