June 25, 2023
The problem with religion, Friedrich Nietzsche thought—especially Christianity—was that it weaponized pity.
May 21, 2023
Most are unaware how seditious Christianity was in the earliest centuries of the Church, unaware how threatening Christianity was to the world of late antiquity.
April 7, 2023
Today’s Roman villain, Pontius Pilate: in some corners of Christianity, he’s considered a saint. The Coptic Church, for instance, thinks he’s a saint, the Ethiopians too. They think he later converted and was martyred.
April 6, 2023
It amazes me still the story from Exodus (a few chapters on from the passage we’ve heard this evening), the story about the elders of Israel, there on the mountain with Moses and Aaron: that mystical moment, that meal, when they ate and drank and saw God. They didn’t die, the sacred text says; they should’ve […]