Lucifer was betrayed by god. When he appeared in the garden as a talking serpent he spoke wisdom to Eve. He sought to liberate the soul of humanity and save them from the suffering he knew only so well.” -
Br. Ezra

Tales of Heresies and other Gnostic Delights

~Br. Ezra P. Miracle
Forbidden Fruits - Heretical Tales and other Gnostic Delights

 If the Christian God is a god of love and mercy then why did he require the murder of his only begotten son - a murder he, himself sanctioned? Going back to the Torah we see that God prohibited murder. Long before he gave Moses the Ten Commandments, he forbade murder when he made his covenant with Noah. He took extreme umbrage when Cain murdered  ( Read more... )

In all my musings about early Christianity and defense of Paul it has never occurred to me that Paul never once quoted the words of Jesus. If he did it was never recorded in any of the letters that are claimed to have been authored by him. Paul just simply wrote letters admonishing the fledgling churches in his care to certain moral standards and ( Read more... )

In our doubtful and often quixotic quest for the historical Jesus certain things come to our attention that arouse excitement giving us a momentary hope that we are not laboring like fools for gold in a pile of horse crap. One of those is the so-called James brother of Jesus Ossuary that was widely reported on in October of 2002. Naturally it didn’ ( Read more... )

 
Being somewhat of a rebellious heretic I am starting to get comfortable with the possibility that I will go to hell when I die. That is if the Evangelical version of the afterlife is correct and there is even a hell in the first place. Fortunately, I don’t believe in hell. Not an eternal one anyway. So when I die please bury me with a bottle of ( Read more... )