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Paul the Theosophist

I suspect, but can’t prove, that the relationship of the early Christians, or at least the Pauline Gentile churches, to the Jews was more like that between Theosophists and Indians than people like to think. … specifically i mean things … Continue reading

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Questions to a Roman Catholic Praising Mary as Queen of Heaven

Do you really think the universe is organised like an oriental despotism? Do you really think Jesus intended to set up a royal court in Heaven? Does he seem particularly fond of court ritual and pageantry to you in the … Continue reading

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On a Feminist Reading of the Gospel

the new testament *also* says “women should remain silent in church” and “i do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet”, and rather conspicuous in their absence are revelations abrogating … Continue reading

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A Fee for Sunlight

astrology i am still coming to a conclusion about, but i am still pretty sure that people who charge you for consultations are amulet sellers what is so offensive to me about the brown scapular is the pure priestcraft of … Continue reading

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Catholic Bimbofication

because the roman catholic umbrella can be described best as “maximalist” this means there is some subset that will attract someone – some particular holy person with vatican stink rubbed all over them, either for reasons of simple chronology, geography … Continue reading

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Parapolitics of Esther

book of esther is both better and worse than ezra-nehemiah. better because it works better as a fun drinking story with a melodrama but worse because it is so evidently the pattern of every pogrom fuelled by fantasy and paranoia … Continue reading

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Why Traditionalists Are Not Protestants

it’s a pleasing and tidy thought but i don’t think it’s true. like “protestant” is not a generic name for “offshoots of the Latin church”. “protestant” refers to a very specific ecclesiastical current grounded in issues from 500 years ago … Continue reading

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Christianity is Not Ecological

the Christian worldview is deeply anti-ecological which nobody really wants to draw out at length except a few gaians, and which is only seriously considered either by liberals (who… you know, are liberal about it) or crazy intelligent design / … Continue reading

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An Old Disease

lots of people believe in God and they don’t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics these ultra … Continue reading

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Crossanity: On Believing in the Saints But Not Jesus

the reason the saints were thrown out by the reformers is because both the gospel-as-written and north European political aspirations are about unmediated power relations, made fair by virtue of this unmediated quality — by the gospel everyone is to … Continue reading

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