Oh Progressivism, you gullible fool. In 2016 a woman claims she is a lesbian. Then in 2021 she claims she is a man (and therefore "straight"). And there you are in both cases, nodding your head right along like an idiot, demanding no proof, just taking her word for it. And when 2026 rolls around, what will she claim to be then? What truth claims will she demand you blindly accept? It doesn't matter. Whatever it is, you'll believe it, you gullible fool.

Oh ...

https://stephenmeasure.com/thoughts/2021/07/05/progressivism-you-gullible-fool/

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Jul 03, 2021, 15:16

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Jul 03, 2021, 15:16

Jul 03, 2021, 15:16

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

New cover for "Fitting In"

https://stephenmeasure.com/news/2021/07/03/minor-news-new-cover-for-fitting-in/

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**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 24, 2021, 10:33

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 24, 2021, 10:33

Mar 24, 2021, 10:33

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

"Freedom From Super-Religion"

A super-religion is a religious movement that pretends to be non-religious, thereby allowing its faith-based beliefs to be imposed on other religions and on secularism itself.

http://www.stephenmeasure.com/essays/2021/03/24/freedom-from-super-religion/

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 09, 2021, 13:14

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 09, 2021, 13:14

Mar 09, 2021, 13:14

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

The reason why the LGBT movement has proven such a challenge to organized religion is because the conflict has wrongly been interpreted as religion vs secularism when it is actually religion vs religion.

Gender identity is a faith-based belief that contradicts provable reality and as such it has no business being anywhere near secularism. Sexual identity, on the other hand, does not currently contradict provable reality because it is only an interpretation of it, ...

http://www.stephenmeasure.com/thoughts/2021/03/09/religion-vs-religion/

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 06, 2021, 13:33

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Mar 06, 2021, 13:33

Mar 06, 2021, 13:33

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

What is more important, having your favorite team win one specific game, or honoring the rules of the game and thereby allowing future games to take place? There are those who claim that you should fight, fight, fight, never conceding a loss for your team. Always there is some excuse why the game wasn't fair. Always there is some excuse why the other side cheated. Never was there any intention of honoring the rules if it meant accepting a defeat. If the rules ...

https://www.stephenmeasure.com/thoughts/2021/03/06/deference-to-the-rules/

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Feb 28, 2021, 00:58

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Feb 28, 2021, 00:58

Feb 28, 2021, 00:58

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

Secularism, as it is commonly understood today, is only capable of protecting us from control by organized religion. It isn't capable of protecting us from control by faith-based non-religion.

This is very troublesome given that we live in a world where an increasing amount of people are abandoning organized religion yet obviously not abandoning faith-based beliefs entirely (Exhibit A: gender identity). Our society, clearly, must reconsider what it understands ...

http://www.stephenmeasure.com/thoughts/2021/02/27/secularism-needs-to-protect-us/

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Feb 20, 2021, 22:01

**Stephen Measure** @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz · Feb 20, 2021, 22:01

Feb 20, 2021, 22:01

Stephen Measure @stephenmeasure@mastodon.xyz

A trio of essays arguing that secularism must always give precedence to proof over faith and that gender identity therefore should not be taken seriously as a secular belief.

http://www.stephenmeasure.com/news/2021/02/20/gender-and-secularism/