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May 2017

May 23, 2017

The Word Creates the Thing It Names

Not ex nihilo, out of nothingness, For nothingness does not exist. The word selects what...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Agnostic Jewish Paganism—and Other New Religions

Yes, I am all three of those; how I define them makes them compatible. That...

August 19, 2016

On Metamethodology in Religious Studies: For John Morehead

John, I very much appreciate your calm and well-informed response to my earlier blog entitled...

August 15, 2016

The Jewish Cemetery in Paris, Texas

Two blocks from our house on Pine Bluff. Found by accident. Gravestones dated in the...

August 02, 2016

Some Instructions to Follow

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

August 01, 2016

On the Moral Implications of the Bell Curve

I spend about as much time as any other well-informed person being concerned about the...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why I Am Thoroughly Pissed Off at Jill Stein

It’s really because of my mother. I have told parts of her story before; I...

July 30, 2016

Jill Stein, you are betraying the Jewish people—and the rest of humanity—because Trump is a Nazi.

Everything you are doing and saying makes it a little more possible that this pathological...

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...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

But When I’m Talking to a Nazi, I Have No Doubt that I’m Jewish

In response to a blog I posted a while back entitled, “So Am I Jewish?”...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

So Am I Jewish?

In early December Melinda was on Ancestry.com, trying to track down her Cherokee ancestors, the...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since...

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...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Rebirth Among Those You Love

Gardner asserts in Witchcraft Today that belief in reincarnation was preserved by the witch covens...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Pagans and Christians and Mark, Part I

Some people ask whether one can be both Pagan and Christian. If you think of...

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...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

How Atheism Kills Students

I’m sure that got your attention. I mean only a certain kind of atheism: if...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Yes, Atheism Is a Genuine Religion

Religion does not need to be social, shared, a church; a person’s religion can be...

February 18, 2014

Of Blogging, the Virtues of Atheism, and the Epidemic Mental Illnesses That Are Destroying All Societies

I have not been posting much on this blog lately. My attention has been concentrated...

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 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...

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,...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

On the Novel as Simulation Modeling

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

May 2013

May 22, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part IV

In Part III of this series, I pointed out that Mk (The Gospel According to...

May 21, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part III

As I discussed in the previous blog, that rather humorous passage about the Queen of...

May 16, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part II

At the end of Part I, I asked, Would the people in Jesus’ time have...

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