Yasukuni Shrine & State Shinto: Nationalism, Imperial Cult, and Post-War Historical Memory
Executive Briefing: The Political Flashpoint of Memory Established in 1869 to enshrine war dead, Yasukuni Shrine was central to pre-1945 State Shinto (*Kokka…
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Executive Briefing: The Political Flashpoint of Memory Established in 1869 to enshrine war dead, Yasukuni Shrine was central to pre-1945 State Shinto (*Kokka…
Executive Briefing: The Ethics of Belief In 1869, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined Agnosticism not as a creed, but as a methodological rule: it is morall…
Executive Briefing: Philo’s Razor Published posthumously in 1779, David Hume’s masterpiece dismantled the teleological argument from design, proving that inf…
Executive Briefing: The Greatest Cultural Event When the Madman cries in The Gay Science (1882) that “God is dead! And we have killed him!”, Nietzsche is not…
Executive Briefing: The Insoluble Theological Paradox Philosopher J.L. Mackie formulated the logical problem of evil: the triad of God’s omnipotence, God’s o…
Executive Briefing: Goodness for Its Own Sake Secular humanism affirms that ethics, human dignity, and compassion are grounded in our shared biological natur…
Executive Briefing: The Celestial Teapot Analogy In 1952, Bertrand Russell illustrated that the burden of proof rests on the person making unfalsifiable meta…
Executive Briefing: The Evolutionary Architecture of Belief Cognitive scientists of religion (Pascal Boyer, Justin Barrett) demonstrate that religious belief…
Executive Briefing: The Pale Blue Dot Secular naturalism is not cold despair; as astronomer Carl Sagan expressed: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself…
Executive Briefing: One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy Albert Camus articulated The Absurd: the irreconcilable collision between humanity’s desperate demand for…