Christian churches in America are social clubs. We do a nice job of providing excuses for people to exercise their instincts as a social animals. There are bowling teams, softball teams, basketball teams, the ladies auxiliary, youth groups and various boards on which to serve. We put on nice pot-luck dinners and serve coffee after worship services where members gather …
LOA Today – 09.14.16
It’s amazing that Joel and Walt have been doing the show together for nearly a year now, yet they haven’t talked about individuality and the Law of Attraction. After all, both are libertarians philosophically. So they decided that the topic was long overdue. If you really want to understand how the Law of Attraction works in your life, you MUST …
Paul Buchheit – How the Super-Rich Will Destroy Themselves
Perhaps they believe that their underground survival bunkers with bullet-resistant doors and geothermal power and anti-chemical air filters and infrared surveillance devices and pepper spray detonators will sustain them for two or three generations. Perhaps they feel immune from the killings in the streets, for they rarely venture into the streets anymore. They don’t care about the great masses of ordinary people, nor …
Expanding Mind – Lucifer Revising – 10.29.15
A talk with author Peter Grey about radical witchcraft, the trouble with neopaganism, and the devilish twists and turns of the story of Lucifer that animates his new historical study, Lucifer: Princeps. http://scarletimprint.com/
WHAT THE NUMBERS DON’T TELL US: RELIGION IS A LIVED, SHIFTING EXPERIENCE – KAYA OAKES
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and those who feel culturally bound to a religious tradition even while they don’t participate in one, the latest Pew survey results come as no surprise. It’s been clear for years that Mainline Protestant Christianity in America is on the decline. That Catholicism also is in precipitous decline—and the …
So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews?
Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they …
Roots Of Modern Terrorism And Religious Fundamentalism
– Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with Church dogma must be burned without pity –Â Pope Benedict III – Pope from 855 – 858 AD. – Fear is the basis of the whole – fear of the mysterious, of defeat and death. Fear is the parent of cruelty and therefore it is no wonder …