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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...

Freeing the Mind Part I The emergence of Religious Toleration in the West  Book Cover   One of the most important features ...

Barnum was an Optomist   Glycon Coin In the second century C. E. there lived in the Roman Empire a man named Alexander from the cit...

Revenge Fantasy The Left Behind Books Part I The Background – Hating America First Book of the Left Behind series Almost 20 ye...

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

“Freedom” Under a Tyranny Isaiah Berlin One of the most important attributes of tyranny and living under a tyranny is that intell...

Sistine Chapel The ceiling Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo  are among the greatest works of art ever conceived of by a...

History Making History’s (Non) Meaning The Origins of Historicism A Note The Juggernaut One of the most pernicious of Man’...

Oh My Goddess! * The Great Mother of Teotihuacan A Note Near Mexico City is the great ruin of the city of Teotihuacan, wh...

The Great Peace The Taiping Rebellion A Note Taiping Imperial Seal In the mid-19 th century China was convulsed by a series...

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

Henry VIII’s First “Divorce” Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon When Henry VIII decided that he needed to get a "divorce...

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

Heretic Pharaoh A Note The Aton  One of the most controversial historical figures is that of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, a Pharaoh of ...

Original Sin Redux The Killer Ape Theory Part 1 Scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey One of the most delicious of intellectual...

A Geography lesson The Book of Mormon’s Lands   In a previous posting I discussed The Book of Mormon and how the “history” in it is ...

Moral Cretinism Part IX The ban passages, Genocide and Himmler.  William Lane Craig  The following is, in full, a bl...

Why? Blank There is an old joke / urban legend that circulates among students and faculty in North American Universities and it goes as...

Noel Nativity Scene Perhaps one of the most evocative of modern Christmas Carols is Chris de Burgh’s A Spaceman Came Travelling , from...

Remembering 9/11 Ground Zero Today marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks in New York City and in Washington D.C. that killed c. 3,...