Jesus Was a Feminist
Lately, as is my wont from time to time, I have been rereading the gospels. As I've been doing so I came to the rather surprising conclusion that Jesus was advocating a sort of feminism in much of what...
View ArticleA Brief Excursion Into Panentheism
From time to time I delve into the nonsense of religious speculation.I have been thinking lately about a particular occult philosophy that belief is a tool to be used to effect change in oneself and in...
View ArticleThe God-Machine: A Modest Proposal
Suppose you have a black box. It has two openings, one labeled "Questions" the other labeled "Answers."No matter what you put into the "Questions" slot, something will come out of of the "Answers"...
View ArticleConfession: Dogmata, Faith, Science, and Belief
I am a natural atheist. I was not raised in any particular faith tradition, and my earliest questions about religion and what it meant were often met by my parents with further questions rather than...
View ArticleMind, Body, Spirit, Whatever: The New Poetics of the Metaphysical
Adam Fieled has published a very interesting essay at Word For/Word about what he sees as a needed resurgence of metaphysical concerns in contemporary poetics. I largely agree with his thesis that the...
View ArticleOn The "Ground Zero""Mosque"
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Constitution of the United States, First AmendmentI'm angry. Furious. My rage is a...
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