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Here's a gem I dug up from Farrakhan's speech at 1995's Million Man March. To quote The Tick, I like the cut of this man's gibberish:I want to take one last look at the word atonement ( Read more... )

wishthesame, hepkitten and any other Christians or amateur theologians, could I get you to fact-check my response here?

Heather and I were talking lat night and she expressed concern that the Pope would be visitting Turkey soon ... as will we. Not wanting to be mistaken for the Pope or Catholics who might have to answer for the pope, we were talking about just what to tell someone in Turkey who might ask our religion. This reminded us of our honeymoon in Israel and ( Read more... )

My mom had foot surgery last week to deal with about seventeen different problems she's having. Today she sent me this:So I was in the waiting room at the doc's office today, panting from my long trek from the parking lot. Exit a woman with two surgical shoes on (that would be one on each foot, not two on the same foot). I rolled my eyes and good ( Read more... )

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"... and those who say, ‘We are like angels’; they are the stars that bring everything to its conclusion."
-Gospel of Judas

You might remember the other day when I mentioned being a bit confused by a passage from In Search of Zarathustra in which the author noted Metatron as another name for Satan, a usage I'd never heard before. I wrote to the author to ask him about it and today I got this replyDear Erik ( Read more... )

I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying Paul Kriwaczek's In Search of Zarathustra which details the author's investigation into the Zoroastrian religion and the long-lasting cultural influences of Zoroastrian belief. One of the key legacies of Zoroastrianism is a theistic dualism - a belief in two competing supreme beings, one good and one evil ( Read more... )

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