God Spews As what is, My view is simply that of reality and using all tools you can employ to see reality, is true worship of Me. History, conveyed through the word, is one of those tools. When humans canonize My word, or worse impose My authority on their words, they assume Godly powers. This [&h[...]
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Celebrating the Sacrifice of the Ear
December 23, 1888 Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cuts off his own left ear, or at least part of the earlobe, after a row with fellow artist and close friend, Paul Gauguin. The incident happened in Arles, where van Gogh was living in a rented studio. The Dutchman, then aged 35, had long suffered repea[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Debating Jesus’ Existance
Did Jesus Exist? – Part 10 July 15, 2013 By Bradley Bowen 1 Comment In my previous post on this topic, I argued that we need to answer 44 specific questions in order to come up with fact-based initial evaluation of Bart Ehrman’s Seven Gospels Argument (SGA). The first question is whether Mark (o[...]
Boston Police Strike
On September 9, 1919, Boston Police Department officers went on strike at 5:45 p.m. Of the department’s 1,544 personnel, 1,117 (72 percent) refused to report for work. Governor Coolidge assigned 100 members of the state’s Metropolitan Park Police Department to replace the striking officers, but [...]
Summer Soon
Original Cover Painting for Tarzan Comics by Mo Gollub – (Dell, 1955). This is a cover painting of Tarzan facing down a snarling leopard high in the treetops. Oil on artboard, from Jockohomo[...]
Sunday Revelations
An elderly lifelong bachelor who lives with hundreds of other old, single men in a stylish European capital city has given strict orders to the world’s women and married heterosexual couples on the allowable methods for human impregnation. Dressed in flowing silken capes and a bejeweled silken hat[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Roots and Faith
“Murano” Pig in spanish, used to refer to hidden Jews after the expulsion of 1492. from The Smithsonian Some people in the valley were reluctant to confront such questions, at least initially, and a handful even rejected the overtures of physicians, scientists and historians who were sud[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: copying the Torah
The Hebrew alphabet is over 3000 years old and is about the same age as the Torah itself, There is even reason to believe it was invented so the Torah could be written by scribes but read by everyone since the Hebrew alphabet with the first vowels, was easily learned by common people. In fact [...]