Popular culture loves an apocalypse, with special fondness these days for zombies, pandemics, and zombie pandemics. (The 2012 thing is…
Category Secularism
Yes, I think rape is evil. And no, I do not think it is remotely necessary—except to the purveyors of…
Apparently, we live in a brutal patriarchal society, awash with misogyny and toxic masculinity, where women are excluded, exploited, oppressed,…
In ancient Carthage, infants were murdered, cremated, and buried under stone thank-you notes to the gods, in return for services…
Joseph Tittel, aka Spiritman, sees the headlines of the future long before the news happens, according to himself and his…
The year 2015 has dawned, and the tabloid prophets have been at it again, telling the world what wonders and…
I knew it was going to be bad when the trailer showed a Great Pyramid under construction in New Kingdom…
About a generation ago, a charismatic preacher and self-proclaimed Jesus called James Warren Jones took about a thousand of his…
Over the last hundred-odd years, dozens of men and also a few women have claimed to be Jesus Christ, back…
Vancouver, summer of 1992. My sisters and I took our collective brood down to Granville Island for lunch and diversion:…