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Wealth, Christ, Romney, Mormonism, and the 47 Percent the President Shouldn’t Be Caring About.

18-Sep-12

buy Misoprostol Sometimes I do think that Christianity’s preaching of poverty is a vice, which has broken people like me – that I will never be right, never be happy, never know what is is to be loved or to enjoy human life, because I have been exposed to the message of Christ.  I look on Protestantism […]

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

03-Apr-12

buy lurasidone (Latuda) online I have heard this line bandied about as proof that Jesus died feeling betrayed by God – which, I will admit, is a possible interpretation, though intriguingly this saying is reported by two men – “Matthew” and “Mark,” whoever they were – who obviously thought Jesus was the Messiah and Son of God and not […]

Bibles and Evangelicals.

01-Mar-11

I’ve written recently about the need to destroy Biblical literalism; and here is an obituary of one minister who worked on precisely this.  The reporting appears to be unaware of the actual issues involved, but Gomes’ words themselves are salutary: “The Bible alone is the most dangerous thing I can think of,” he told The […]

Kerouac, the unideal husband.

11-Jun-10

Kerouac’s first marriage: he married a girl and moved out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and worked at his father-in-law’s ball-bearings factory.  It lasted two months: At home Edie and her mother, anxious to see Jack as a competent husband, were alarmed that he spent most of his free time in the bathroom, reading Shakespeare and […]