Tag: jesus christ
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#MorningMonarchy: July 20, 2017
Salem ceremonies, laying hands and Hollywood’s undead + this day in history w/MKULTRA unveiled and our song of the day by Super Deluxe on your Morning Monarchy for July 20, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 8, 2017
Ghost ship, gay demons and groping Cosby + this day in history w/USS Liberty 50 and our song of the day by She-Devils on your Morning Monarchy for June 8, 2017.
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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 his own young religion, there was also dissent, with one major question threatening to cleave the popular cult — as it was at the time…
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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 was brought up by Mary and Joseph. The house is partly made of mortar-and-stone walls, and was cut into a rocky hillside. It was first…
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Where Did Christianity Really Come From?
from newdawnmagazine.com: This article is a brief examination of the nature and historical roots of the Qumran community that lived and worked on the western shore of the Dead Sea around 150 BCE to 68 CE and the connections that may be discerned between it and the preaching of John the Baptist, the ministry of…
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The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife
from TheAtlantic.com: For six days in September 2012, some 300 participants came together at Sapienza University, in Rome, for the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies. Among those presenting was Karen L. King. The author of five books, King is a highly respected specialist in early Christianity whose work focuses on a group of Christians…
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Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
from damninteresting.com: Sometime in the 1940s, an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was institutionalized for believing she was the Virgin Mary, chanced upon one another and engaged in conversation. They had been chatting for several minutes when the older woman introduced herself as “Mary, Mother of…
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The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
from Smithsonian.com: “On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a farmer’s daughter named Miyuko, fathered three kids and died at the ripe old age of…
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police storm church of the nativity to break up brawling priests
clerics clash in bethlehem brawl at jesus’ birthplace* from beliefblog: Clergy from two Christian sects came to blows in the Church of the Nativity on Wednesday morning, prompting police to storm the Bethlehem holy site. Several dozen Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests were cleaning the interior of the church Wednesday morning when, according to witnesses,…
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‘wonderful blood’: christian cannibalism in the middle ages
from strangehistory.net: Christian ‘cannibalism’ refers to the Eucharist when Christians (or at least non-Protestant Christians) believe that the bread and wine transmute, in mass, into the blood and body of Christ. Modern Christians are for the most part blasé about this: no one really thinks of the Eucharist as eating the flesh of another human…
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codices lead to allegations of jesus as an openly gay man
from guardian: What if the newly found codices provided evidence of Jesus’s same-sex activity? Michael Ruse imagines the implications. The most astounding finding from the newly discovered lead codices is that Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay. He and his disciples formed a same-sex coterie, bound by feelings of love and mutual support. There…
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‘Book of Mormon’ Set to Open On Broadway
A new musical set to open on Broadway Thursday night looks at religious faith and doubt with a healthy dose of imagination: the audience meets Jesus, Church of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith, Satan, and an African warlord as well as Darth Vader, Yoda and two hobbits.
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3/3 Pop Occulture: SCOTUS, Commandments, Shock
SCOTUS upholds Westboro right to protest at funerals // Was a Vanity Fair editor secretly working for Scientology? // UK student may have been lured to ‘occult’ bunker
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Vatican’s Darkest Decret – No Apostolic Succession
The Vatican is considered a castle by some, a temple by most. The Pope does not live, walk, sleep, sit, worship and breath the air of Holy Land but instead lives in a temple where he sits as the head of a state within a state – that state is the Vatican City.
