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Benjamin Cain

@benjamincain8

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active: 2025-10-28 → 2026-07-16

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#philosophy ·26 #atheism ·13 #religion ·11 #christianity ·10 #society ·10 #culture ·9 #psychology ·7 #existentialism ·7 #writing ·5 #history ·5

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

Slavoj Žižek: A Clownish Charlatan Who Abuses Philosophy

Nihilism and the worst of continental showboating

May 21, 2026 · 7 min read · 484 claps paywalled #philosophy #society #existentialism

Slavoj Žižek: A Clownish Charlatan Who Abuses Philosophy

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

Make Friends with Absurdity in Your Worldview

But do so with honourable humility

Jul 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 440 claps paywalled #philosophy #existentialism #psychology

Make Friends with Absurdity in Your Worldview

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

Should We Shun a God who Hides from Us?

The Christian conundrum of the world’s many religions

May 27, 2026 · 10 min read · 431 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #christianity

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Shower President Trump with Praise!

The obviousness of Trumpian evil gives away the conservative game

Jun 09, 2026 · 7 min read · 422 claps paywalled #philosophy #politics #donald-trump

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BE Benjamin Cain · Grim Tidings

Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

A dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders

Nov 03, 2025 · 14 min read · 374 claps paywalled #psychology #mental-health #philosophy

Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

Did the Early Modern Atheists Personally Attack Religious Folks?

Clarifying the roles of argument and explanation in atheism

Jun 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 359 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

Did the Early Modern Atheists Personally Attack Religious Folks?

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BE Benjamin Cain · Grim Tidings

Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

A dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God

Feb 05, 2026 · 13 min read · 351 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

The Visceral Sense of Nature’s Unfairness

We feel the religious problem of evil in our bones

Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 351 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

The Visceral Sense of Nature’s Unfairness

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BE Benjamin Cain · Grim Tidings

Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs?

Cancel culture and the abuse of “blocking” writers

Oct 28, 2025 · 6 min read · 342 claps paywalled #writing #medium #culture

Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs?

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

Monotheists Lack the Moral High Ground

Divine commandments are for slaves or artifacts, not godlike people

Jun 24, 2026 · 7 min read · 339 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

The Perennial Clash Between Normalizers and Radicals

Social conformity and the prophet’s apocalypse

Jun 16, 2026 · 7 min read · 311 claps paywalled #philosophy #society #history

The Perennial Clash Between Normalizers and Radicals

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Algos in the Cave

My first music album is out now on YouTube

Jul 01, 2026 · 4 min read · 298 claps paywalled #art #music #philosophy

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Musical Mana from the AI Gods

The reckoning is here for human musicians

Jun 23, 2026 · 8 min read · 290 claps paywalled #music #artificial-intelligence #art

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

The Farcical Battle Over Religious and Atheistic Death Counts

Tribalism, humanist morality, and the comparison of religious and secular dangers

May 20, 2026 · 9 min read · 283 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

The Farcical Battle Over Religious and Atheistic Death Counts

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

The Sad Confusions in William Lane Craig’s Case for Christianity

When an atheist needs to teach an apologist how explanations and myths work

Jun 17, 2026 · 10 min read · 275 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #christianity

The Sad Confusions in William Lane Craig’s Case for Christianity

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

Exploits of the Enlightened Supervillain

The paradoxes of rational enlightenment and selfish progress

May 25, 2026 · 9 min read · 271 claps paywalled #philosophy #psychology #society

Exploits of the Enlightened Supervillain

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BE Benjamin Cain · Grim Tidings

A Paranoid End-of-the-Year Update

When the universe seems to be telling you to stop writing

Dec 25, 2025 · 7 min read · 270 claps paywalled #writing #writing-life #self-publishing

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Tracing the Alienation of the Rich and the Poor

The social dynamics of the billionaire’s partial enlightenment

Jul 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 270 claps paywalled #philosophy #economics #psychology

Tracing the Alienation of the Rich and the Poor

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

The Horror of Being a Singularity

The amorality of Buddhist enlightenment

Jun 15, 2026 · 10 min read · 227 claps paywalled #philosophy #buddhism #psychology

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

Morality’s Grounding in Nature’s Godlessness

Right and wrong are for people in nature, so theistic rationales for morality are obsolete

Jul 01, 2026 · 8 min read · 192 claps paywalled #philosophy #religion #christianity

Morality’s Grounding in Nature’s Godlessness

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BE Benjamin Cain · Philosophy Today

The Frustrating Sloppiness of Continental Philosophy

Slavoj Žižek’s rambling about the “parallax view”

Jun 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 177 claps paywalled #philosophy #culture #existentialism

The Frustrating Sloppiness of Continental Philosophy

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BE Benjamin Cain · Deconstructing Christianity

“Rational Proof of God” is Oxymoronic

How theistic apologists often forget how religions work

Jul 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 175 claps paywalled #philosophy #atheism #religion

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Writing About Trump Without Being Preachy

The deeper issues for each side of a tribal dispute

Jul 14, 2026 · 4 min read · 151 claps paywalled #philosophy #music #donald-trump

Writing About Trump Without Being Preachy

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BE Benjamin Cain · Grim Tidings

Vagaries of Deep Time

Check out my second music album on YouTube

Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 133 claps paywalled #music #philosophy #art

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BE Benjamin Cain · Thought Thinkers

Can Digital Content Still be Precious?

Reflecting on the “remixes” of my first album are out on YouTube

Jul 09, 2026 · 2 min read · 50 claps paywalled #music #art #social-media