The Politics of History

by | Aug 24, 2012 | Commentary, History, Religion

Today I want to review a book I have recently finished reading: The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel. Let me introduce my subject with a quote from another recent book by Nachman Ben-Yehuda, the Israeli sociologist, who writes: “How do we...

Truth or Lies Part 6

by | May 17, 2012 | Truth or Lies

The Bible is an Extraordinary Book: A book which claims infallibility; which aspires to absolute authority over mind and body; which demands unconditional surrender to all its pretensions upon penalty of eternal damnation, is an extraordinary book and should,...

Truth or Lies Part 4

by | May 13, 2012 | Truth or Lies

Getting back to the subject of cults, the modern day cults of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are – as we can see – rather different from the ancient pagan cults. Keep in mind that a cult is defined as having an “object of worship,” the worship...

Truth or Lies Part 2

by | May 12, 2012 | Truth or Lies

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only a unanimity of the graveyard. Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954 As many regular readers know, almost from day one of the...