If there is only one god with whom to make a covenant, and if He is the sole master of the universe, then the contract is signed under duress.

He only becomes a unique god by virtue of existing among other gods: His importance is affirmed when his worshippers no longer command a kingdom that controls a Temple, but instead need a god sturdy enough to survive without a home and rugged enough to secure his people’s independent existence without any government to support them.

Beyond the context of Polytheistic Monasticism, creating such spaces is important in terms of providing spiritual nourishment for those of us struggling to survive in a world that is experienced as overwhelming and hostile.

The original heresy is the belief that the earth is not our home, that our real life is somewhere else—whether in heaven or a future technotopia. We embrace this heresy to make sense of that nagging feeling that something is wrong with the world itself. But the real reason we feel this way is because civilization alienates us from everything that makes us human.

Elections have the habit of making even the most radical among us elevate the project of democracy. If the United States were a true democracy, that would be a vast improvement over the present condition. But what this line of thinking fundamentally does is provide a simulacrum of arguments for equity.

My worldview does not accommodate supernatural beings that exist separately and independently of human beings. In that sense I am an atheist. And yet, my world is full of gods...

...The god is fighting for the simple joyThe sweetness of pure movement, the delight Of perfect action, flawless, self-contained...