Bible

Baneful Baptist Predatory Pernicious Pastors Destroying Democracy

This essay is dedicated in appreciation to Paul Pearson Southern Baptist pastors have been spiraling downward  into the abyss of fiction and fraud for generations, pushing the iniquitous sword attacking civil rights, women, people of color, and the customary whipping boy for ignorant people: the LGBTQIA+ community. From Billy Graham and G. Marion “Pat” Robertson …

Physicans, Pastors, Predatory Politicians Destroy Democracy

The concept of freedom of choice and expression is not absolute. No person has the right to broadcast misinformation about matters of health, social stability, and the right to express oneself in a democracy. Various physicians have been justifiably censored and removed from jobs that require public trust. This is especially true in the field …

Texas Republicans Are Against Pornography In Libraries and Are Supported by Republicans In Other States

This essay is dedicated to my well-read and erudite friend Woody Besse in Cedar Hill, Texas who puts up with my decidedly anti-Republican essays exposing the duplicity and double-talk given to education and learning, First Amendment rights and guarantees, and the equality of all people regardless of sex, gender, gender-identification, race, age, status, etc. Burning …

White Evangelical Christians and their Ancestors

QAnon at the riot

The cult-like conspiracy system and conservative Christianity are influencing one another and creating potentially violent fanatics under the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic fallout.  Both movements are angry and bitter over former president Donald Trump’s election loss — which they believe was fraudulent. “Older members would ignore Black Lives Matter and …

Biblical Plagiarism

The sage, savant, and scholar Paul Pearson, my friend, has a new blog (https://pearsonally.com) that I recently commented on in brief concerning Ben Carson [1. https://pearsonally.com/blog/ben-carson-examined/]. Carson, currently Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and neurosurgeon and devout Seventh Day Adventist is a biblical literalist who has no knowledge of ancient pre-Biblical or biblical languages, …

The men known as Jesus–Part 2, No. 2: Psychology of a dysfunctional family

Dysfunctional Jesus

Jesus, his parents and siblings: Psychology of a dysfunctional family   Contents 1. Definition of a dysfunctional family The Anna Karenina Principle 1b. Religion and dysfunctional families 1c. Lines of separation in dysfunctional families 2. Jesus’ dysfunctional family 2a. Lack of contemporary confirming evidence 2b. Jesus’ family members 2c. Jesus’ parents 2d. Invention of Mary’s …

The men known as Jesus in the New Testament—Part Two: Understanding the Psychology of Jesus

Jesus will train children how to kill.

Understanding the psychology of Jesus Contents 1. Introduction: Psychology and Literature 2. Jesus the glutton and drunkard 2a. Psychology of gluttony 2b. Psychology of drunkenness 3. Psychology of a peaceful Jesus 3a. Psychology of peace 3b. Psychology of denial 3c. Jesus loved little children 4. Psychology of the Warrior Jesus and Violence 4a. Jesus hated …

Discovering Different men called Jesus in the New Testament—Part One, No. 2: Psychology of Jesus–How I lost Jesus and Found Art

How I lost Jesus and found Art 1. Introduction: Learning to fear and love God 2. Psychology of daily Bible reading to find Jesus 3. God’s gift: fear and love 4. Living Biblical Literalism 5. Mistake of questioning god-fearing parents 6. Rebellion 7. Sex and Jesus 7a. Sex, sin, and psychology 7b. Masturbation 7c. Impure …

The men known as Jesus in the New Testament: Part One, No. 1: What the Bible actually says

Jesus chases out money changers.

  The men known as Jesus in the New Testament Part One, No. 1: What the Bible Actually says Contents 1. Background for inquiry and biographical sketches 2. Jesus: Portraits of Warrior and Pacifist 3. Saul’s Warrior Christ 4. Jesus the hedonist 5. Hell and Jesus 6. Sex as a religious rite 7. Jesus birth …