Creation always involves violence. Conception of life or an artifact may start in a moment of quiet tenderness, but gestational changes wreak havoc. Whether you enter the world via the birth canal or are surgically removed by cesarean life begins in the throes of pain. There is always blood, sweat and tears. Stars are born and they die in massive ( Read more... )

I killed Russell Shaw.

I shot him dead. It was a reflexive action. Moments after bursting into my home and tearing through my personal library of banned books there was a dime sized hole in the center of his forehead. Blood was oozing out of it. The fury in his hazel eyes gone replaced with a glassy, empty stare.

I was shaking with adrenaline and, I ( Read more... )

The god of the ego would have you believe that he sacrificed his only son so that humanity could merit eternal life. But, does this sound like something that a loving god would really do? Would a loving god forbid human sacrifice and then turn around and allow it to be committed in his name? The answer to both questions is no.

When the Israelites ( Read more... )