by Didact | May 8, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Living as a Christian – albeit an unbaptised one, so technically you could lawyer around things and claim that I’m not a real Christian – in a pagan country provides some interesting perspectives on paganism that may be useful for...
by Didact | Apr 17, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
In my previous post in this two-part series – there will not be any other posts unless Dawn Pine himself responds at significant length and I believe that the response merits its own full-length response – I provided the full commentary of one of my...
by Didact | Apr 17, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
I have not yet said anything about the terrible Notre Dame fire, mostly because I am not interested in virtue-signalling about how much I care so very deeply about a monument that I last visited when I was, I think, about 4 years old. (Or so my parents tell...
by Didact | Mar 21, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
It was exactly one year ago today that I lost my previous job in the USA. I provided a lot of the details here, in one of my better known posts. The one year since then has proven… interesting, to say the least. Time, distance, and a number of quite unpleasant...
by Didact | Mar 7, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
I am well aware that the title of this post is extremely inflammatory – or at least it is to neo-Palestinians, Churchians, and cuckservatives – but before y’all decide to grab your flamethrowers and torch me for insulting Jesus, the Christ and...
by Didact | Feb 21, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
So I want to try a little thought experiment on all y’all. We Christians believe that, basically, this life is all you get. You are born with a body, a soul, and a spirit. This trinity is special in Christian doctrine, and with good reason, because it is a type...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
One of the most vivid and persistent myths from the ancient world has to do with the outcome of the Third Punic War, in which the victorious Romans supposedly sowed the the city with salt in order to ensure that nothing of value would ever grow there again. That this...
by Didact | Jan 24, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
When I saw a headline over onThe Daily Mail a couple of days ago screaming bloody murder about how a bunch of white boys from a Catholic high school in Kentucky mocked a Native American “elder” and Vietnam veteran, my first thought was…...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light...
by Didact | Dec 25, 2018 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to...
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