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 […]
Jean Meslier, the atheist priest of the Enlightenment: Reading time approximately 2 minutes In 1678, the French fourteen-year-old, Jean Meslier, began to study Latin. He became a Catholic priest by the time he was twenty-five. He died in 1729, at the age of sixty-five, a little-known and humble clergyman. It was the writings that were […]
We have two goats, a little pygmy-Nigerian dwarf mix named Buddi, and an alpine-Nigerian mix named Hailey. For years, I’ve made a habit of hanging out with them for at least an hour every afternoon, usually around happy hour. I can do that now because I’m retired. Surprisingly, they have taught me a lot […]