“Christian Science”—which George Bernard Shaw aptly described as neither Christian nor Science—was founded by the female prophet Mary Baker Eddy…
Category Secularism
Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, meaning “Great Soul,” is widely considered a saint and a martyr, the father…
There is a whole world of Christian fiction out there, to the tune of at least one and a half…
In 1956, a volume of strangely folksy esoterica hit the bestseller list worldwide, and provoked a wave of interest in…
So I went to the movies, and saw Noah. Apparently Noah’s pre-flood Earth is the sort of thing you’d get…
First, a word of apology for my long and unannounced absence from the network. I was in China for a…
Offshore from Nanaimo, on the east side of Vancouver Island, a string of lesser islands lines the edge of Georgia…
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, HPB for short: fakir or faker? To her believers, she was a psychic miracle-worker, a fearless…
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…