Tag: christianity
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Saints Alive! ‘Millions’ Believe In The Power of Money
The only Danny Boyle movie that isn’t rated R is kind of a kid’s Christmas movie about saints. But really it’s also about money – and what we value and what we believe in.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 16, 2016
Human animals, Scientology Sachs and accidental death + this day in history w/Soweto uprising and our song of the day by The Joe Jacksons on your Morning Monarchy for June 16, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 21, 2016
Back-up torches, Manson family values & grave dancers union + this day in history w/Tiananmen Square and our song of the day by Mike & The Melvins on your Morning Monarchy for April 21, 2016.
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The Medieval Christian King Inspired by the Muslim World
“If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, “Many faults in the universe would have been avoided.”
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Religious Children Are Mean
Controversial new research is claiming what many already feared: religion makes you mean.
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Disco and the End of Atheism
from americanvision.org: Atheism seems to be on the rise. A number of young people are taking to it like they did to disco in the 1970s. But alas, like all […]
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How Did God Get Started?
from bu.edu: One day in the Middle East about four thousand years ago, an elderly but still rather astonishingly spry gentleman took his son for a walk up a hill. […]
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A hint of civilisations clashing
from economist.com: As my last posting noted, the first edgy thing which the new Greek government did was to downgrade, albeit very politely, its relations with the church. The second thing was to upgrade […]
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Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
from wsj.com: Written by Mary Beard: The Greeks and the Irrational. By E.R. Dodds (1951) For me, this was a life-changing book. It starts with an encounter in the British […]
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A Christian Nation? Since When?
from nytimes.com: America may be a nation of believers, but when it comes to this country’s identity as a “Christian nation,” our beliefs are all over the map. Just a few weeks […]
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How the Council of Nicea Changed the World
from livescience.com: When Constantine became the first Christian leader of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, his vast territory was populated by a hodgepodge of beliefs and religions. Within […]
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The Beguines: A Lost World Made by Women
from nytimes.com: If feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest […]
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Aesthetic Occultism: A New Terminology
from victorianweb.org: Christianity was dealt blows from all sides in the nineteenth century, altering forever the common system of Biblical image and terminology that people used to communicate. During earlier […]
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Jesus’ House? 1st-Century Structure May Be Where He Grew Up
from livescience.com: Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus’ hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus […]
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Massacre of Innocence
from www.revisionisthistory.org: In focusing on the subject of abortion, much has been contended from a medical and social perspective. But when we pull the lid off and look at abortion […]