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To build a better world, we should destroy the Catholic Church Fideism & Obedience : the extra bit about St Augustine of Hippo Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art The Catholic Church is a technocracy Fideism, reason and… —the gap that is always there Inappropriation (Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome) Faith as…

Self-care as salvation-- all authenticity but no responsibility Deborah Casewell in her aeon.co essay raises some notice on Karl Jaspers’ existentialist angst-mongering, how it has been mis-categorized (by Sartre) such that Jaspers as an inventor of the word existentialism he gave it away after losing control of the branding in the marketplace of ideas, but, Casewell reminds us, the “focus on the individual, the importance…