Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, HPB for short: fakir or faker? To her believers, she was a psychic miracle-worker, a fearless…
Category Atheism
When writing last week about the monster/buffoon Saparmurat Niyazov, aka Turkmenbashi, I touched on that gentleman’s personal contribution to world…
So what is the difference between a personality cult and a messianic cult? This is not a riddle, it’s a…
“It was lamentable to see this broad young man, who would have been so happy in the prize-ring, the fish-market,…
Okay, it’s stretching things to call Isaiah Robertson a messiah—he’s a prophet, rather, with an apocalyptic message, which predicts the…
A common modern conception about Medieval times is that the Catholic Church was in absolute control of the hearts and…
I’m going to fast-forward again, right past one of the big kahunas in the long, checkered history of messiahs, Jesus…
In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and…
[Note: When I began this blog a little over a year ago, I intended to put up a regular series…
Another creationist “science” textbook has fallen into my hot little hands, this time from the freebie bin at the library:…