Making a joyful noise There was a time when Christian churches didn’t ring bells. Bells, bell ringers, and bell towers were gradually incorporated into use over many centuries and are now current symbols of Christianity. This is a brief history of the origin and developments in the utilization of church bells. Before Christianity, pagans rang […]
A real head-scratcher on many levels The book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, may be the most confusing book ever written. It’s a book full of bewildering and terrifying visions. Christians obsess over determining its hidden meanings because their eternal life may depend on getting it right. Does it really give […]
In 897, Pope Stephen VI commanded that the corpse of the seven-month dead Pope Formosus be disinterred. His assistants then dressed it in papal garments and a tiara and transported it to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. They placed the decomposing body of Formosus on a throne and propped it up so […]
All new-born babies are atheists. In addition, no baby is born with the curses of racism or hostility toward any other group of people. All the animosity associated with those prejudices and the behaviors they motivate had to be taught to children, and the younger that education began, the more deeply its effects penitrated. Vilification […]