Tag: Jesus Christ
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Donald Trump & Trumpism Are What Happens When Magical Thinking Goes Psycho
Magical Thinking should have an expiration date — at the end of childhood, say. Or when one turns 18 and votes for the first time. Alas, that’s not the case. Some people — Republicans — never lose their taste for Magical Thinking. That’s because it’s more than a taste, it’s an addiction. The reason religious…
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How Did “Do Unto Others” Become “Do What We Say”?
Ya know the game “telephone”? A person whispers something into the next person’s ear — who then whispers what they heard into the next person’s ear and so on until we get to the last person. Usually, the original message gets wildly corrupted into total gibberish which makes everyone laugh when they hear it —…
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American Christianity Has Turned Itself Into A Death Cult That Would Have Horrified Jesus
Though I am a hard core (I’d even say devout) atheist, I consider myself a “fan of Jesus”. I don’t know for certain if Jesus actually existed (at present, no one can prove that he did, but, I suspect someone vaguely like him did exist — heavy emphasis on the word “vaguely”) but even a…