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Gabriel Andrade

Gabriel Andrade is a university professor originally from Venezuela. He writes about politics, philosophy, history, religion and psychology.
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Politics

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist: when apocalyptic myths meet Silicon Valley

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Influential Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has been increasingly talking about the Antichrist, but is he just being metaphorical?
Extremism

Sacred Cloths? Flags, outrage, and the skeptical mindset

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It is a sad irony that many who rightly oppose blasphemy laws are often first to demand harsh penalties for the desecration of flags
Politics

From sacred signs to golden urns: The oddities of Dalai Lama Succession

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The Dalai Lama's successor - by definition, his reincarnated self - is nothing but superstition and mysticism, however it is chosen
Religion

Is Pope Leo XIV the true successor to the apostle Peter, Catholicism’s first Pope?

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The new Pope is no successor to Peter - the facts do not support the Catholic narrative that Peter was ever bishop of Rome, or the first established Pope
Skepticism

Black Pope, Bad Omen? Apocalyptic fears, Nostradamus, and the Papal succession

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Misinterpreted 'predictions' about a black pope ushering in the end times reveal more about contemporary biases than about Nostradamus
Religion

This Easter, consider the Rebbe: A new perspective on resurrection beliefs

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When a Messianic figure dies, their followers have to either accept their death, or believe their leader lives somehow on – hence, the resurrection
Religion

Conclave raises fascinating hypothetical scenarios within the Catholic Church

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The recent film Conclave, about the election of a new Pope, sheds light on the very human process behind anointing a new spokesperson for god
Philosophy

Trump’s lies aside, what is the basis for our revulsion at the idea of eating cats and dogs?

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Trump falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs, but we can question the moral revulsion to eating some animals, but not others
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