Scientology’s Homophobia: Even the Church’s Token Gay Guy Was Disgusted by Tony Ortega September 2, 2012 Keith Relkin UPDATE after the jump: Breaking news about Paul Haggis and the Vanity Fair bombshell about Tom Cruise. One of Scientology’s enduring mysteries is that it has attracted Hollywood stars when it has such a reputation for homophobia. The...
The ancient Hellenes had an odd view of blood; for one, they made a very clear distinction between human blood and animal blood, and ascribed powers of pollution and purification to it. It's a fascinating--if not somewhat dark topic--and I'd like to take a moment to discuss blood and blood rituals in ancient Hellas today.To a modern practitioner, 'blood' most likely has a negative connotation to it; it's considered miasmic, after all, at least the blood of humans...
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in accord with strict adherence to moral principle. The situation, however, is not so straightforward. The plot, based on the historical record, is well known. King Henry VIII’s desire for a son leads him to seek a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Thomas More, previously named Lord Chancellor of England, is a devou...
Leyland Cypress (thing) See all of Leyland Cypress, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 34 ( +35 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri May 03 2002 at 19:52:27 (thing) 1 C! by ianah0 (4.2 y) In 1888, the female flowers or cones of a Nootka Cypress were fertilized by pollen from a Monterey Cypress. The two parent species would never have met in the wild as their natural ranges are 1000 miles apart(the female from Alaska and the male from California). But the origina...
In Deuteronomy 4:13 why were the Ten Commandments written on two tablets? Dr. Meshulam Margaliot points out that Midrashic tradition is divided about what was written on which tablet. The options seem to be: 1–5 on one and 6–10 on the other. (This is the tradition interpretation that is most common in art and synagogue decoration.) All 10 on each tablet. Even numbered on one and odd on the other (as suggested by Mike Bull), does not seem to be a Jewish interpretation represented in the ...
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Follow Us: Membership Walpurgis Night Definition by Joshua J. Markpublished on 01 May 2020 Send to Google Classroom: Walpurgis Night (30 April, annually) is a modern-day European and Scandinavian festival derived from the merging of the ancient pagan celebration of Beltane with the commemoration of the canonization of the Christian Saint Walpurga (l. c. 710 - c. 777 CE). The ancient Celtic Sabbat (religious festival) of Beltane, which ...
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Prime Curios! 19 >>> Testing new web page format problems? suggestions? 19 Intercalation in the Chinese Calendar is after the eighth month every 19 years and is called ren ba yue (Double August). According to tradition, tragedy will follow when the month is added at that time. [Gevisier] Egyptian biochemist Rashad Khalifa (1935-1990) claimed that he discovered an intricate numerical pattern in the text of the Qur'an involving the number 19. Sura 74:30 reads: "Over it are nin...
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The Vikings’ Conversion to Christianity "Ansgar Preaches the Christian Doctrine in Sweden" by Hugo Hamilton (1830) The traditional tales of the Vikings’ conversion to Christianity are sleek dramas full of zealous missionary saints, kings, and clerics who Christianize entire populations in a few heroic actions that are hardly short of miracles. As is the case with most medieval hagiography (a genre focused on recounting the lives of saints and other holy men and women), the historical real...
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EVE Online has a god named Bob How the sci-fi virtual world spawned a strange new religion By Cassandra Khaw Mar 31, 2015, 8:40am EDT It started with a joke. Or more accurately, a bizarre jeer. "Early on, [members of the EVE Online corporation Adhocracy]...
Is "Hebrews for Christians" the Zionist reply to "Jews for Jesus"? I am guessing this doesn't just mean the Book of Hebrews (in the Old Testament) but rather . . . Hebrew people now living and answering. -zas Parashat Shelach Before sending out the leaders of the tribes to spy out the land, Moses renamed his trusted servant Hoshea (הוֹשֵׁעַ) to Yehoshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ), appending the letter Yod (י) to make his name begin with a divine prefixive (יָהּ־). The Talmud (Sotah 34b) states tha...
Old Testament Charts (Bible History Online) Joseph, a Type of Christ Genesis 37:8 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. It is nearly impossible to examine the life of Joseph in the Old Testament and not see the similarities of the events in the life of Christ. There are many types and shadows in the Old Testament that prefigure Jesus Christ, and many have...
‘Man of Steel’ no longer Man of Shtetl? Does the new Superman movie, opening Friday in the US and next week in Israel, assimilate away all of its historically Jewish connotations? The last son of Krypton, Kal-El, better known to you puny Earthlings as Superman, is making yet another appearance on the silv...
