This conversation dates back to January 2014, I think, and it happened on a PM exchange with a recently accepted Facebook friend. Mind you, we had just met. I hope I handled his query respectfully. Or maybe he got more…
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January 7: Heidi Fleiss, Religion and Prostitution
Prostitution, the crime underlying the crime for which Heidi Fleiss was jailed, has been present in every culture and every period of history.
Tagged with: Armenia, Asia Minor, Babylon, Canaan, Deuteronomy, fertility, Greece, Heidi Fleiss, hierodouloi, Hollywood Madam, Kings, Mother Earth cult, Old Testament, Phoenicia, Religion and prostitution, Sixtus IV, sodomites, Syria, whore, world's oldest profession
Posted in Entertainer, History, Religion, Theology, Uncategorized
Posted in Entertainer, History, Religion, Theology, Uncategorized
December 25: Christmas Day
Mithra — like Tammuz, Adonis, Apollo and Horus — was a sun-god. So you see, the “reason for the season” is not the son of any god, but the sun up in the sky!
Tagged with: Adonis, Apollo, birth of Mithra, Birthday of the Unconquered Sun, Catholic Encyclopedia, Dickens, Horus, Isis, Koreion, Macrobius, Origen, Pagan Origins of Christmas Day, Saturnalia, Solstice, St. Jerome, Tammuz, Theodosius
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
October 12: Columbus in the New World
Columbus Discovers the New World (1492) It was on this date, Friday, October 12, 1492, that Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in September or October 1451, and was reared a Roman Catholic. He…
Tagged with: antipodes, Augustine, Ceuta, Ferdinand, Isabella, New World, Pierre D'Ailly, Religion of Christopher Columbus, slavery, Tostatus, Ymago Mundi
Posted in Explorer, Religion, Theology
Posted in Explorer, Religion, Theology
September 16: Tomás de Torquemada
Tomás de Torquemada (d. 1498) It was on this date, September 16, 1498, that the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Tomás de Torquemada, died in Ávila. Born on a date uncertain in 1420 in what is now Valladolid, Torquemada was a…
Tagged with: auto-da-fe, Catholic Encyclopedia, conversos, Dominican, Grand Inquisitor, King Ferdinand, LaGuardia trial, Queen Isabella, Religion and Tomas de Torquemada, Sixtus IV, Spain, Spanish Inquisition
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
August 8: Eating God
Quam singulari (1910): Christian Communion It was on this date, August 8, 1910, that “Quam singulari,” a decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments, specified the age at which children are to be admitted to first Communion in the…
Tagged with: age of discretion, Aztec, Catholic Encyclopedia, Dionysos, eating God, Eucharist, first communion, Golden Bough, Huitzlipochtli, Isis, James George Fraser, living Body and Blood of Christ, Mexico, Mithra, Osiris, Paul von Hoensbroech, Quam singulari, reasoning powers, Roman Catholic Church, Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
July 11: Excommunication
The Papacy abused excommunication freely and frequently for political advantage – so much so that a bishop would excommunicate a thief who stole his property!
Tagged with: anathema, Christian fatwa, Clement VII, excommunication, Henry VIII, Index of Forbidden Books, Index of Prohibited Books
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Theology
June 7: Muhammad
“It was not the religion of Islam that was disseminated by the sword, but political sovereignty.”
May 24: Samuel F.B. Morse Thanks God for What Man Hath Wrought (1844)
It was on this date, May 24, 1844, that Samuel F.B. Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought,” which inaugurated long-distance coded communication over the first telegraph line strung from Baltimore, Maryland, to his colleague Alfred Vail and an…
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