The second part of my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman. Here’s a taste, read the rest at the link: Lt us continue with my reader’s remarks: The prepaschal Jesus was ethnocentric to first century Israel. He called her a dog—you know what he called her. Not a female pet dog. A vermin little (not CUTE) FEMALE dog. This is an enormous insult to the woman. Gentiles were commonly referred to as dogs by ancient Israelites. Jesus apparently repeats... Read more
…correcting yet another “expert” on the martyrdom of Hypatia: At Medium, “The Herstory of Hypatia” — Herstory, get it? — written by one Joshua Hehe, who bills himself as: Theorist, Pantheist, Ontologist, Syncretist, Glocalist, Anthropologist, Populist, Cosmologist, Futurist, Ethicist, Alarmist, Epistemologist, Occultist, Artist,… Clearly this impressive list of accomplishments qualifies him to write about Late Antiquity. Or something. My old buddy Mohsen is a cosmologist, and I am familiar with the range of mathematics and physics he had to master. (TOF... Read more
…and does his usual thorough and measured job of sifting the data. Result: Yeah. I’m one of those people who generally thinks that when an entire people attests to the reality of a historical event, it’s a safe bet that something, rather than nothing, lies behind it. Confident declarations that there is *nothing* to the Flood story, *nothing* to the Exodus and *nothing* to the claim that Jesus existed and *nothing* to the belief of his disciples that he was... Read more
So the open secret that Harvey Weinstein is a vile swine and sex predator is out. He’s been doing it for decades, lots of people knew it, and lots of people worked to cover it up. He was, says the Kansas Star, the Democrat Roger Ailes: a powerful bully people were terrified to cross, a rapist and a perv. The people who protected and sucked up to him were largely on the Left. Media types from the NY Times on... Read more
People are baffled at what I meant by “Gun Cult”. I do not mean “People who like guns or shooting”. Fire away. I don’t care. I’m not a bad shot myself and have no objection to guns, hunting, target shooting, etc. What I do mean is really quite simple. If your first response to something like Sandy Hook or Vegas or the fact that we slaughter 36,000 people by guns each year is “Dear God! What can we do to... Read more
Hey, Pacific Northwest Americans and Pacific Southwest Canadians! Check this out! Mark your Calendars! Read more
…that you can offer an authentic Catholic celebration of the family *without* disseminating Alt-Right White Supremacist Eugenics Blood Worship propaganda: Read more
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Peter Stockland at the Catholic Register
gives me hope, not so much because he agree with me but because he has mercy on the weak and struggling, which is what the gospel is all about. Read more