Category Archives: Humanities
Jesus the Radical Humanist
HUMANISM - Any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate. (Dictionary.com) There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known. Nothing you can see that isn’t shown. Nowhere you can be that … Continue reading
Filed under Humanities, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sciences
Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War of Independence
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb Introduction For years I’ve had an abiding interest in the underlying causes of that watershed event in U.S history, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 – also known … Continue reading
Filed under Ethics, History, Humanities, Politics, Religion
Atheism, Human Nature, and The Death of Freud
SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT the towering works of three men in particular have stood as portals to the mindscape that is current scientific understanding: I speak of Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. Two of them were avowed Atheists, and … Continue reading
Filed under Humanities, Psychology, Religion
Letters of the Ancient Romans
We all share an appreciation of what is good in both the very old and very new. These days we worship at the temple of the techno-geek god who rewards us with an endless smorgasboard of new and improved whiz … Continue reading
Filed under archaeology, History, Humanities
