It has been a while...

I think I'll restart this blog, but it's time to change the focus. It will not strictly concern itself with philosophy (as it was in the early days) nor a travel log (as it served while in Chile). Afterdoxy will turn to general writing of any subject matter; in short, it is going to be more of a blog than ever before. Here is an old post of mine on Facebook. An oldie but a goodie. Enjoi...

This is a paraphrase of David Hume's Natural Religion excerpt on axiomatic religion, which I will assume none of you will read and if you do you will blithely ignore its content because it disturbs you. But why would I post this? Simply because I know you care about religion because it is important, and I think these things are important to consider. It is only blissful stupidity to ignore it. I want you to have an opinion and an apology because I have always thought your opinion was important.

The Fundamental Axioms of Religion:


1. These Axioms are True. This is the Prime Axiom of the axiom sets of all religions, and of course always a handy one to have if you wish to be able to derive the truth of your beliefs (oxymoron city) from your principle axioms.


2. God exists, is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibeneficient.


3. God has kindly revealed by various prophetic means this set of Axioms, which are axiomatically True (see Axiom 1), Complete (omniscient), Mandatory (omnipotent), and Good (omnibeneficient).


4. All other (possibly competing) sets of Axioms are False, except maybe ones that are later revealed by God, presuming that we don't have as an Axiom the following Axiom:


5. These Axioms are Complete. (Seal of the Prophets, "Closed Canon", the Warning of Revelations, et cetera; Mohamed should have had a talk with Thomas Jefferson, see below.)


6. Anyone who fails to accept these Axioms as Their Axioms in their deepest heart of hearts is a Bad Person, and this will be known by the omniscient God, who will then omnipotently cast you into an eternity of Eternal Torment out of the goodness of His (emphasis intentional on masculine anthropomorphism) omnibeneficient heart at some unspecified point after your miserable death.


7. Now, let's get down to important things, like tithing the priesthood, how to pray and where, and just how infallible the priesthood really is when conveying divinely inspired interpretations of these Axioms to the less Holy...