by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 14 of the Pillars of Faith series
Fall from Grace
My personal “fall from grace” began with John Calvin. I was participating in Buy Nothing Christmas last year, and for Dad’s free gift, I decided to write about his hero Calvin. Neither of us was expecting a lengthy piece called A Tremendous Blasphemy. [...]
What’s with Texas and crazy fundies in education? Now it seems fundies want to teach children that “that there would be no United States if it had not been for God.”
Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state’s history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he [...]
The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known Christian Bible, dated around 330 to 360 CE. That’s over 300 years after Jesus was said to be born — time enough, you’d think, for the “perfect Word of God” to have been ironed out. Not so:
Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 9 of the Pillars of Faith series.
Brave New World
As Columbus sailed toward the New World, a new pope was elected in the old world. The year was 1492, and Rodrigo Borgia became Pope Alexander VI. Among the most notorious of all papacies, Borgia’s family was the inspiration for Mario Puzo’s Godfather [...]
Rep. J Randy Forbes wants to insist we all embrace our “Judeo-Christian principles”:
Of course we were a Judeo-Christian nation. We persecuted Jews, Catholics, and unbelievers during Our Great Beginning, right? We slaughtered the Indians and took their land. We enslaved Africans to work our newfoundland. We kept women in the home and did everything we [...]
by VorJack
Christianity was born into a greco-roman world, and the first Christians accepted the structure of Roman marriage. Marriage was monogamous and heterosexual, but divorce was possible and the husband might have a concubine before marriage. Marriage and procreation were considered civic requirements, and Augustus found it necessary to legislate marriage for Roman citizens.
By the [...]
Listverse has a list of 10 Christ-like figures who pre-date Jesus:
Buddha
Krishna
Odysseus
Romulus
Dionysus
Heracles
Glycon
Zoroaster
Attis of Phrygia
Horus
(But they left out Ishtar!)
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 2 of the Pillars of Faith series.
The Wesley Family
John Wesley was a social activist, evangelist, denouncer of “witchcraft” and a man who claimed he had raised the dead.
He was born an Anglican in 1703. The family lived in a rural village in England, where they were in the ministry, helping orphans [...]
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