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On PZ Myers versus Evopsych
A few weeks ago, I invited Ed Rybicki, a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Cape Town, to write a guest article about the firestorm that erupted one year ago around a much-maligned short...
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Zen and the Art of Sexual Exploitation
So there’s this guy who likes to fondle women’s breasts and have them stroke his man-parts – pretty normal, right? Except he’s a Zen master, now aged 105, and the women in question have been his...
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Happy Birthday…sort of.
One of my favourite garage-sale treasures ever is a huge, garish door-stopper of a book that cost me roughly fifteen cents a pound—that is, it weighs just under seven pounds, and cost me only one...
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THE LAST BREAKFAST (Matthew 10:35-37)
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a round of bread, the very food he was now poking at, but not actually eating. Hava frowned at the neglected...
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Happy Blasphemy Day!
As one man’s meat is another man’s poison, so one man’s blasphemy is another man’s reality check. And that goes for women, too. All of us are atheists about a good many deities that other people once...
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Friday Messiah: Sargon the Great of Akkad
[Note: When I began this blog a little over a year ago, I intended to put up a regular series on Prophets and Messiahs through history, and how they relate to the structure of religious and other...
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Friday Messiah: Akhenaten, the Heretic Pharaoh
Sargon of Akkad was an upstart, a nobody, raised to power by the favour of a goddess—at least, according to the legends that both celebrated and rationalized his iffy background. But what if a...
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Friday Messiah: Moses, Prince of Egypt
In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and Akhenaten of Egypt, both of whom once existed in the flesh. I cannot make that claim about...
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Friday Messiah: Emperors of the Last Days
I’m going to fast-forward again, right past one of the big kahunas in the long, checkered history of messiahs, Jesus himself. This is because I want to return to him and some related issues at a later...
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Friday Messiah: The Christ of Bourges
Gregory of Tours A common modern conception about Medieval times is that the Catholic Church was in absolute control of the hearts and minds of European Christendom, and there is no doubt that it was...
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On PZ Myers versus Evopsych
A few weeks ago, I invited Ed Rybicki, a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Cape Town, to write a guest article about the firestorm that erupted one year ago around a much-maligned short...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zen and the Art of Sexual Exploitation
So there’s this guy who likes to fondle women’s breasts and have them stroke his man-parts – pretty normal, right? Except he’s a Zen master, now aged 105, and the women in question have been his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Birthday…sort of.
One of my favourite garage-sale treasures ever is a huge, garish door-stopper of a book that cost me roughly fifteen cents a pound—that is, it weighs just under seven pounds, and cost me only one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE LAST BREAKFAST (Matthew 10:35-37)
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a round of bread, the very food he was now poking at, but not actually eating. Hava frowned at the neglected...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Blasphemy Day!
As one man’s meat is another man’s poison, so one man’s blasphemy is another man’s reality check. And that goes for women, too. All of us are atheists about a good many deities that other people once...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Messiah: Sargon the Great of Akkad
[Note: When I began this blog a little over a year ago, I intended to put up a regular series on Prophets and Messiahs through history, and how they relate to the structure of religious and other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Messiah: Akhenaten, the Heretic Pharaoh
Sargon of Akkad was an upstart, a nobody, raised to power by the favour of a goddess—at least, according to the legends that both celebrated and rationalized his iffy background. But what if a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Messiah: Moses, Prince of Egypt
In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and Akhenaten of Egypt, both of whom once existed in the flesh. I cannot make that claim about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Messiah: Emperors of the Last Days
I’m going to fast-forward again, right past one of the big kahunas in the long, checkered history of messiahs, Jesus himself. This is because I want to return to him and some related issues at a later...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Messiah: The Christ of Bourges
Gregory of Tours A common modern conception about Medieval times is that the Catholic Church was in absolute control of the hearts and minds of European Christendom, and there is no doubt that it was...
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