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Religion has always dressed up its tribal claims as universal truths, but the fabric tears the moment reason pulls at the seams. Judaism begins with the arrogance of a chosen people, a God who singles out one tribe in a desert as the sole recipient of revelation. Christianity takes that tribal God and globalizes him, insisting that no one can be saved without bending the knee to one man nailed to a cross in Palestine. Islam follows suit, declaring there is no god but Allah and no prophet but Muhammad, commanding the whole world to submit. Each system is exclusivist by design. Each insists on a revelation that cannot be questioned, cannot be tested, cannot be verified. The proof of their truth is their existence, and the evidence of their existence is their power to demand obedience. It is a circular logic enforced by violence.

Dialectics is my weapon against this tyranny. Dialectics exposes the contradictions that revelation hides. If truth is universal, why does it need a chosen people? If God loves the world, why is salvation limited to those who repeat a particular creed? If the Qur’an is eternal and perfect, why does it contain abrogations and contradictions? Revelation is brittle under questioning because it is built on assertions, not arguments. It appeals to fear and loyalty, not to logic. The dialectical method, by contrast, thrives on questions, contradictions, and self-correction. Where revelation demands silence, dialectics demands speech. Where revelation says “believe,” dialectics says “prove.”

My epistemology is Logical Empiricism. That means I accept as knowledge only what can be tested, reasoned, or experienced. I don’t bow to miracles; I ask for evidence. I don’t tremble at mysteries; I interrogate them. Revelation insists that truth is revealed once and for all to a prophet and frozen in time. Empiricism insists that truth is discovered, tested, and revised by all who seek it. Revelation treats doubt as sin; empiricism treats doubt as the first step of inquiry. One demands submission, the other demands courage. The irony is that science and philosophy have actually delivered truths that work: electricity, medicine, spaceflight, quantum mechanics. Revelation, with all its dogma, has produced only schisms, wars, and in its political form, colossal crimes.

Exclusivist revelation has ended not only in sectarian arrogance but in colossal real estate theft, enslavement, and genocides. The “Promised Land” became a license to steal territory from its inhabitants. The Christian conquest of the Americas annihilated civilizations and chained millions into slavery. The Islamic caliphates spread by conquest, pillaging, and dominating lands not only from Persia to Spain but also from Central Asia to India to Indonesia. Always the justification was the same: God commanded it, revelation demanded it, the faithful must inherit what others had built. No philosophy, no science, no art could justify such crimes—only the claim of exclusive revelation could excuse them.

The tragedy of history is that irrationalism sells better than reason. The masses prefer certainty to inquiry, miracles to logic, obedience to freedom. It is easier to rally armies around a cross or a crescent than around a syllogism. It is easier to enforce loyalty with threats of hell than to invite minds into debate. That is why exclusivist revelations dominate world history, while philosophies like Advaita Vedānta, Stoicism, or Logical Empiricism remain footnotes. The prophets of revelation understood marketing: fear, blood, reward, and punishment. The philosophers of reason offered only the hard discipline of thought. History rewards the sword, not the syllogism.

And yet, reason remains undefeated in its own realm. It does not conquer by violence, but it endures by truth. Revelation crumbles whenever it is measured against logic. No miracle withstands scrutiny; no dogma can silence doubt forever. Empiricism continues to advance because it corrects itself; revelation remains stagnant because it cannot. Dialectics reveals what revelation conceals: that exclusivism is weakness masquerading as strength, that claims of final truth collapse when confronted with the relentless pursuit of actual truth. Revelation has armies; reason has arguments. Armies win battles. Arguments win history.

Ultimately, my opponent is the exclusivist revelation. My weapon is dialectics. My ground is Logical Empiricism. I do not need prophets, holy books, or tribal gods. I need only the courage to question, the discipline to test, and the honesty to admit when I am wrong. Revelation tells us the truth was revealed once, to a few, for all time. Reason tells us the truth is discovered again and again, by all, for eternity. One imprisons the mind. The other sets it free. This is not just philosophy; it is a revolt. This is Reason in Revolt.