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 …
Franklin Graham Franklin Graham, the son of the famous televangelist Billy Graham, and the well-remunerated[1. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/franklin-graham-says-covid-19-tent-hospital-wont-discriminate-gay-man-says-refused/.] president/CEO of Samaritan’s Purse. Graham himself drew a salary of $636,451 in 2018, according to the organization’s IRS filing,[1. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/581437002.] and that’s on top of the full-time salary he gets as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic …
Around 10 members of the Goyim Defense League came to Austin from Florida this past weekend, hanging an anti-Semitic banner on a MOPAC overpass near the Shalom Austin Jewish Community Center on Saturday and then walking around the heavily trafficked 6th Street. “They were all wearing t-shirts with big swastikas and hats with the same,” …
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 …
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 …
Freedom of religion is a centuries-old expression. In most cases freedom of religion does not exist. It is not accepted by SCOTUS or most courts or jurists. It is not enshrined in the nation, nor in separate states. At best it is a buzzword, but in reality freedom of religion is a fantasy that has enchained …
Alveda King has done everything possible to distort and destroy the legacy of tolerance and working together crafted by her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her psychology is scrutinized to determine what motivates the neice to lie about her uncle and aunt, Coretta Scott King, and praise war and bloodshed and oppose affirmative action and compassion for victims of AIDS and discrimination.
Religion has always opposed human freedom. Instead of liberty to expand the mind, religion has sought mind control from the days when the Christian church was formed in 325 CE, to the rise of islam and beyond. Many tortured souls, like Josemaria Escrivá hid behind mortifications of the flesh (flagellation), and pretended, like John Paul II, that these were pious acts encouraged by St. Paul–proving their own linguistic and Biblical illiteracy.
Christmas is considered a time of families being together, sharing drink, food, dance, and various pleasures–but this has never been the rule for all nor the fortune for everyone, as religions have held it captive, deprived it of its temporal joys, and denied the reality of peace and harmony.
The least educated, most gullible turn to fortune-tellers, star-gazers, numerologists and religious fundamentalists in quest of answers that they are too afraid to find for themselves. All religions have gazed to the stars for answers and ordained or commissioned religious leaders to provide rituals that include eating the body and drinking the blood of their crucified saviours. But why is this? This essay explains the foundations of fear and the quest for comfort in a world not known–even seeking relief from extra terrestrials.