Here’s an interesting mental exercise for you: 1. Let’s define Satan as the worst thought you can think. So anything bad, evil, disagreeable, wrong… all that stuff is “Satan” or “Satanic”. He’s the absolute most vile, ugly, scary creature you can
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All the Greatest Stories were Told in the Bible: King David vs. Leonardo di Caprio
King David (who first defeated Goliath, stole his sword, then become a violent kingly soldier) soaked in the blood of battle, one day happened to see his fellow warrior and friend Uriah’s wife Bathsheba bathe in her courtyard from the roof
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Was David and Goliath plagiarized from Homer’s Iliad?
Something interesting I discovered today was the link between the David and Goliath story and Homer’s Iliad. I’ve already come to understand how much of the Old Testament (especially the flood story, but there are others) were lifted from Sumerian
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Which came first, Satan, Michael or Garuda? Christian and Hindu Religious Art
Prepare to be amazed. Today I’ve been looking for pictures of Satan, and pictures of Garuda, for two separate art projects. What I’d never before realized, however, is that medieval depictions of The Devil are basically direct copies of much
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What really happened between Cain and Abel? A surprising discovery from the book of Enoch
You probably know Cain as the bad guy who (for no good reason) killed his nice and kind brother Abel in Genesis, in the world’s first murder. Some of the unexplained problems of this account (such as why God accepted
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Preparing for my first Ayahuasca experience: Moses, Parmenides and Aliens
Ayahuasca is a Peruvian vine that has traditionally been used to send visionaries into “the world beyond” for shamanic and spiritual rituals. Although I was in Peru this summer, I didn’t have the opportunity to join a ceremony. Imagine my
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Dionysus, Hades and Jesus: Marriage in Death to Lords of the Underworld
One of the literary threads I hope to investigate in the future is the tie between vampirism and the ancient tradition of linking death and marriage together; many religions deal with death as an intimate reunion or marriage with a
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The “real” Samson and Goliath discovered in Israel? (Does archaelogy prove the Bible as history?)
An article that caught my attention this summer is suggestively called “In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible’s bad guys.” The article continues to detail the archaeological discoveries by a team in Southern Israel, of what used to be the Philistines
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Bible archaeologists discover tablet that refutes Jesus’ resurrection
Did Jesus Christ really resurrect from the grave after three days? Probably not, it turns out. In 2008 archaeologists found a stone tablet that tells of a Jewish rebel hero who died and came back to life after three days.
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Was Jesus Gay? Homo-eroticism in the Secret Gospel of Mark, the Wedding Chamber and Christian Marriage
A fragment of the Secret Gospel of Mark, a Gnostic text claimed to have been rediscovered by Prof. Morton Smith in 1958 at the Mar Saba monastery southeast of Jerusalem, describes Jesus performing initiation rituals. Before the discovery of Gnostic
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Mad Max and Old Testament: A Shattered Vision of historical greatness
Mel Gibson’s classic post-apocalyptic movie Mad Max (1979) is a good model for understanding the situation which gave rise to the Old Testament. According to the Bible (if we had no other historical records) all of history was the formation
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Should I murder my kids? Christians and Child-Sacrifice
I’m reading “What’s a Christian to do with Harry Potter”. Overall, considering the subject matter, Connie Neal is great. She argues that Christians can read Harry Potter and use it as a platform from which to reach out to and
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