I'll keep this brief ( Read more... )

This has got to be the craziest comic I've ever seenJesus versus the Greek Gods, tearing himsdelf free from the cross after they mock him just so he can kick their asses all the way back to Olympus? Man, talk about your muscular Christianity ( Read more... )

Not that religious violence is anything new in India, but those of us who are Christians muight want to say a prayer for our fellow believers and be glad that things are as good as they are here in Uncle Sam Land.http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia

Not 'personally sad', but still something to be regretted -- the local Catholic diocese closed down 47 churches after their last masses this Sunday. Yes, almost four dozen churches, some of them around 150 years old, shut their doors ( Read more... )

Got this a while back from a friend. As he says, it has to be read to be believed. No, I take that back. I read and I STILL don't believe it ( Read more... )

For our Christmas service (which actually turned out to be the last-one-before Christmas service, even though it was held on the 23rd -- don't ask), we get a sermon in which we're told that the Gospels were "just sermons written down for other audiences, centuries gone" and that "little of what they say about Jesus should be taken seriously ( Read more... )

First of all, it seems that going by what everyone's been saying online, the movie missed the point of the books completely. In other words, Hollywood is going out of its way to "not offend" anyone. For some odd reason people are shocked by this.

Folks, what did you expect? This is Hollywood -- for all their talk of ideals and freedom and sticking ( Read more... )

Well, I was watching the History Channel a little while ago, and they mentioned something about the view the Anglo-Saxons had of Christianity back in the 9th-10th centuries AD ( Read more... )

ISIG is a collection of Science Fiction told from a Roman Catholic POV. I have a copy of the book and I can say in all truthfullness, these are stories and not sermons, and they are very well done.

Two in particular, a space opera story titled Mask of the Ferret and a time-travel story that includes Saint Francis of Assisi titled Canticle of the ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder just how crazy you have to be, to be a philosopher.

I've been reading Revolt Against the Modern World, by Baron Julius Evola. He was a philosopher in the 1920's-40's. He was also an Italian nobleman, an avant-garde artist, a Tantric sex magician, a Grail (as in Holy) scholar, a mountaineer, a passionately loyal Fascist (who ( Read more... )