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July 31, 2017

On the Structure of Infinite Intelligence

As far as I know, Thomas Aquinas was to first to begin thinking about this...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

Be just as we face corruption

Toynbee’s paradigm, that the collapse of a civilization begins when the creative minority is replaced...

August 2016

August 02, 2016

Some Instructions to Follow

When my Ethics class was about to get to the unit on Virtue Ethics, I...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

The Gospels Are Inherently Anti-Semitic. Deal With It.

Mark was a literary genius. He invented the “gospel” as a new literary genre. That...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

In the Name of the Goddess, I Say to You . . .

All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

A Choice for the Erinyes of Victimhood

A reader recently commented on one of my blogs dealing with sexuality that I was...

April 2014

April 12, 2014

Interpreting the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”

There have been many news stories reporting that the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” is as...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Aljazeera Is Radio Free America–and Remember Pete Seeger

I switched to Aljazeera, and found a panel discussion about the lasting importance of Pete...

December 2013

December 15, 2013

Why Is Sex a Problem at All? The Poison of Puritanism

Why don’t human beings just have sex whenever they feel like it—which is usually—just for...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part II

Understanding what the actual theology of the classical Gnostics was about depends on understanding what...

November 24, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part I

In various previous blogs I have been pursuing the myth of Jesus and Sophia. I...

October 2013

October 06, 2013

Goddess Murder, 22: Conclusion of The Acts of Mary

XXIV. Mary Brings the Good News to Gaul [Excerpts from The Acts of Mary as...

October 04, 2013

Goddess Murder, 20: The Flight to Egypt

[An excerpt from The Acts of Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy, L....

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Goddess Murder, 18: The Contention of Mary and Saul

XX. From The Acts of Mary [Excerpts from The Acts of Mary as translated by C.T. Edwards, A....

September 06, 2013

Goddess Murder, 16: The Preaching of Mary

XVIII. From the Acts of Mary [An excerpt from The Acts of Mary as translated...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

Goddess Murder, 12: Awakening

XIV. Awakening [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

August 17, 2013

Goddess Murder, 11: Aphrodiphobia

XIII. The Work Continues, 3 Andy spoke up. “What you’re saying, Alan, is that even...

August 15, 2013

Goddess Murder, 10: Dinner

XII. Dinner [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

August 11, 2013

Goddess Murder, 8: Wedding

X. Wedding [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Goddess Murder, 6: Beginning the Gospel of Mary

VIII. The Beginning of the Gospel According to Mary [Excerpt from the translation by C.T....

July 26, 2013

On the Novel as Simulation Modeling

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, my academic studies progressed from mathematics to poetry,...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

On Jesus as a Gnostic

Why write about him at all? Because, like it or not, he is the protagonist...

January 2013

January 03, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our...

January 02, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

Taking Responsibility for Feelings

I see that an all-male court in Iowa has ruled that an employer can fire...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part IV: The Logical Consequences of the First Commandment

The “First Commandment” under discussion here is not that in the Decalogue, but the one...

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