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Triumph of the Therapeutic (w/ Hannah Zeavin & Alex Colston)

Know Your Enemy

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I Think There's a Miscognizance on Reef's Part About the Function of Religion

There's this whole kind of post-reif tradition in conservative thought of like identifying liberal and progressive ideas with replacement religions. Those myths are themselves not even quite theological they're not even religious enough because they don't actually get you down to the terrors of the soul yeah I think that's right. There are moments in reef where he seems to understand that that these alternative religions really do provide the solace that a pre-existing order of sanctions and interdictions provided but there are times when he doesn't seem to get it.

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