Where Can You Find 72 Virgins These Days, and Other Questions? Anyone who has been in a state of consciousness for the past few years couldn’t help hearing about the conception of…
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RELIGION & METAPHYSICS
Remember when all those missionaries used to go to remote, undeveloped places to win new souls for Christ? In addition to all those shiny beads and other material goodies,…
I am beginning to think that generals make the worst liars. It must be something about the binary nature of their business; you are either dead or alive, the…
Catechetics 101 (the unauthorized version) Why did God make me? God made me to know, love and serve Him in this world, and be with Him in the next. That was the…
Everything’s out-of-date in Kansas Ci – ty / They’re back about as far as they can go . . . The genesis (oops, forgot to capitalize that word) of…
When a guy dressed in expensive garments, surrounded by sycophants and privilege, who has lusted after power and likely orchestrated his own election, calls himself “a simple, humble worker,” you…
Anyone who has been reading this journal knows that I do not count myself among he credulous of any creed. I’ll take my chances with my own “faith”; the…
Like a “cold case file” the story of that New Testament rat-fink, Judas Iscariot, has always had a bit of a smell to it. I alluded to the “necessity”…
Whatever happened to all that stuff that Jesus used to utter about “blessed are the poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:1-3 for you literalists)? To heck with “spirit,” whatever he…
Here we go again. From Acquinas, to the Scopes monkey trial, to creationism to the latest Right Wing Trojan Horse from the people who brought you “partial birth abortion.”…