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Orson Scott Card on Intellectual Groupthink

Check out this excellent article by Orson Scott Card entitled Groupthink and the Intellectual Elite Excerpt: One of the most amusing things about the movement to force immigrants to speak only English...

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Apostasy as Conspiracy Theory: Reason, Logic, Insanity and Mormon...

It’s time to talk about Apostasy. Again. In this post, however, I want to introduce a new approach to thinking about personal apostasy by drawing what I think are compelling comparisons between...

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Don’t Drink the Kool-aid: Jonestown was an Atheist Marxist Socialist Cult

In modern Internet culture, references to “drinking the Kool-Aid” have become a rather common idiomatic expression to derogatorily describe anyone whose dedication to a cause or ideology is complete...

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Vectors – Faith and Doubt are Incompatible in the LDS Church

It has long been popular among certain self-identified Mormon intellectuals to argue that, contrary to what one might suppose, doubt is not inimical to faith. Some even claim that doubt and faith are...

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Orson Scott Card on Intellectual Groupthink

Check out this excellent article by Orson Scott Card entitled Groupthink and the Intellectual Elite Excerpt: One of the most amusing things about the movement to force immigrants to speak only English...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Apostasy as Conspiracy Theory: Reason, Logic, Insanity and Mormon...

It’s time to talk about Apostasy. Again. In this post, however, I want to introduce a new approach to thinking about personal apostasy by drawing what I think are compelling comparisons between...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Don’t Drink the Kool-aid: Jonestown was an Atheist Marxist Socialist Cult

In modern Internet culture, references to “drinking the Kool-Aid” have become a rather common idiomatic expression to derogatorily describe anyone whose dedication to a cause or ideology is complete...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Vectors – Faith and Doubt are Incompatible in the LDS Church

It has long been popular among certain self-identified Mormon intellectuals to argue that, contrary to what one might suppose, doubt is not inimical to faith. Some even claim that doubt and faith are...

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