Is it Time for the Old God to Take Control Again?
(originally published in July, 2020)
I’m talking here about the God who started it all, from teaching Man to domesticate grains to feed himself and then to identify and separate ores in the earth, so...
“Papismus Lucifugus” and the Advent of Tribalism in American Conservatism
Papismus Lucifugus
I have this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen...
Mark Twain, Caiaphas and the Mystery of Satan
During one of his stand-up routines late in life, Mark Twain said he'd always wanted to meet Satan. Shake his hand. (I paraphrase from memory)..."He must have had executive experience. After all, he is...
As Christian Cold War Heats Up, The Faithful Are Equipping For Battle by Joy...
By Joy Pullmann, Religion Editor at Federalist
Along with the rest of the country, American Christianity is in the middle of a cold war. As this war heats up, it will mean church splits, takeovers,...
Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way:
Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world's Kingdoms, and he would give them to Jesus if he would only bow down...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English, for they touch on several subjects important to America today, but...
Satan’s Falling Out With God, News You Need
In the story I'm developing about Satan's battle against God I'm relying on JRR Tolkein's fictional rendering of their primordial relationship... in part because the Biblical account is sketchy, but also, in my view,...
Satan’s Chronicles; A Prelude
I've been working on a book for about six years, "Satan's History of the United States". I originally intended to model it after Schweikart and Allen's best seller Patriot's History of the United States, which...
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?):
The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can not be written off as accidents of Nature, freaks or...
The Times They are A’Changin’, So, Do we Need to Change the Names?
…just to avoid confusion between “classical”, “modern” and “new-and-improved” Republicans and Conservatives.
I watched Peter, Paul & Mary sing this live in 1964 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Of course, Bob Dylan...
