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Lutherean Silliness Martin Luther Martin Luther is without a doubt one of the most important persons in the history of the Wester...

A Note on Nietzsche and Protestant Christianity  Friedrich Nietzsche   The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has had over ...

Contours Of Tyranny Henry VIII Henry VIII has been one of the most studied of English monarchs; a man who was indeed larger tha...

True Faith The French Wars of Religion Part 1 - Origins Jean Calvin Little known today, at least among the non-residents of ...

Coercion Works Book Cover One of the most telling of popular myths regarding history is that history shows that force, coercion...

Out The Window I   Defenestration is one of those words that describe something you wouldn’t think as a word for it. Like for example a...

Reigning at the Vatican Lucrecia Borgia Lucrecia Borgia (1480-1519 C.E.) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503 C.E.) who reigned as...

The Great Victory that never was Lutzen, 1632 Gustavus Adolphus (left) Wallenstein (right) In a previous posting I reviewed a book1 on the ...

St. Augustine Predestined Part of a Painting of Hell by Hieronymus Bosch   One of most important, but also in my opinion dangerous a...

Erasmus and Julius II Erasmus (Left) Julius II (Right) A work attributed to the great Renaissance Humanist and Theologian Erasmus of Rotter...