Reading time: About 4 to 5 minutes. The central question in the two-thousand-year-old Catholic cannibalism debate is whether Roman Catholics or any other sect of Christians deserve to be called cannibals. The simplest way of defining the word cannibal is “a person who eats the flesh of other human beings”. We can trace the roots […]
Militarization of Christianity: Reading time about 8-10 minutes. About twenty years ago, our family attended the patriotic Fourth of July extravaganza at our church. After all the flag waving, chest-thumping, and patriotic songs were over, and we were in our car, my daughter asked me a question. “Dad, why does our church celebrate the military […]
Why do I write about Christian history? Reading time: About 5-6 minutes. Like multitudes of Americans, I am deeply concerned about the increasing polarization of our society. I’m far from alone in seeing that one of the main causes for this is misinformation—lies, exaggerations, and reliance on the wrong authorities for information. I believe the lack […]
Reading Time: About 10 minutes Part One: The Dilemma Sometime in our distant past, our species, homo sapiens, developed the mental capabilities we now possess. That first spark of intelligence was most likely inherited from species that preceded ours, although many people feel that it was directly instilled in us by some supernatural being. […]