Gender and Religion Series
There are three posts in my Gender and Religion series, focusing on antiquity, the formation of the United States, and modern day.
Gender and Religion: In Antiquity
This post covers the evolution of religious groups from small, polytheistic tribes into larger syncretic faiths that span nations. Religious frameworks throughout history have mediated, and sometimes constrained, how groups of people think and behave. Religion, in its healthier iterations, can be a source of team-building and reflection. But in its more troublesome moments, religion becomes a vehicle for dogmatic certitude and an excessive thirst to expand. By studying the evolution of faith over time, I hope to show how the trials of religion throughout history leave their imprint on the present. This should draw us a roadmap of modern cultural battles in context, in the hopes that we can understand the choices in front of us and pick a path that is wise.
Gender and Religion: In America
When the founders of the United States crafted the Constitution and its early amendments, they sought to balance civil rights, state privileges, and federalism. They designed a reciprocal set of contributions between individuals, groups, and the government in which checks and balances hampered authoritarian overreach, and progress was possible. This post seeks to clarify the conditions that led to the American architecture of rights and responsibilities, with special attention paid to religion and gender. The stakes of the modern predicament include the scientific mindset that led to our nation’s best accomplishments. By exploring this past, I hope to uncover a sliver of how the modern age fits into our history, and what must happen to preserve our nation’s virtues.
This post seeks to catalogue how the fingerprints of religion are visible on the modern concept of gender. By bringing to light my story of how a group I joined fell victim to comforting fictions, and noting the patchwork of history adapted into convenient philosophies, I hope to characterize the precursors of a fledgling gender religion. With an understanding of what we face, we can plant green-shoots for fixing communication between different factions and invigorate the search for truth.
Pinned Post
My Journey From Gender Gullible to Gender Critical
This post underlines how the political landscape underneath us has changed since my formative years. Becoming aware of the lines drawn between old-school liberals and postmodernists may have been a shock to my system, but it was a jolt that helped me grow into a more well-rounded person. Orgs like Mermaids and Tavistock claim to speak on my behalf or the behalf of my peers, and this deception was part of what made it difficult to carve out distinctions from the mob. I learned to stand up to those who tried to speak over me. As Kennedy might say, sometimes in life we choose to do things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard."