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What is going on in our world? We have huge numbers of people who are shackled to dogmatic religious beliefs that seem utterly ludicrous to many non-religious people, not to mention to many "religious" people as well.

One of the main problems with such people is that they live in a tiny cultural box, and are incapable of thinking outside of that box. They have been thoroughly indoctrinated with a certain worldview by their society, culture and religion, and they simply never question that single point of view. Indeed, they may be completely unaware that it is merely one point of view among countless other possible worldviews.

The two writers on this blog have broken out of the box. Both of us have lived for many years in countries and cultures on the other side of the world from our home countries, and that experience opens your mind and shows you that there's nothing universal about your own culture's beliefs about anything.

In addition to this, we've both had mystical/spiritual experiences that have a way of unshackling you from the narrow confines of your society's dogmas. Anything your society/culture/religion has taught you is just a limited way of viewing things.

We're grown more than tired of the idiotic societies humans have created on this planet. These societies are shallow, mundane, and filled with dogmatic propaganda. In case you haven't figured it out yet, our world is still in the Dark Ages in many ways. So we'd like to simply point some of these things out on this blog.

When someone breaks out of the box and discovers a whole universe outside of that box, they are like the escaped prisoner in Plato's "Parable of the Cave". To those still chained in the cave, staring at the shadows on the wall, the escaped one seems mad and is often roundly condemned. Just like the so-called "heretics" in the Middle Ages, their crime is daring to point out the absurdities of accepted dogmas. Their ideas seem radical because they are light-years ahead of those still shackled inside the box/cave.

The two writers on this blog have Christian fundamentalist backgrounds that they left in the dust years ago:

Ian Simon: he's a "radical" dude in the Philippines who spent many years in Sweden - arguably the least religious country on earth. He has a Seventh-Day Adventist background which he thoroughly rejects now.

Randy Lee Chester: he has lived in Thailand for 14 years, far away from his Bible Belt roots in the United States. He has a Pentecostal background which seems like a different lifetime to him now. He rejected his former beliefs after doing much research on the writings that make up the Bible, and reading numerous books by critical-historical Bible scholars, as well as many books on spiritual/mystical experiences, philosophy, other spiritual traditions, and science.