AUTHOR

Gabriel Andrade

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

Religion

J.D. Vance, religious conversion, and the battle over identity

Gabriel Andrade - 14th November 2025

J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptics and atheists spreading doubt?

Politics

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

Gabriel Andrade - 29th September 2025

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

Gabriel Andrade - 29th August 2025

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

Gabriel Andrade - 4th July 2025

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?

Gabriel Andrade - 9th May 2025

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