Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

Last week, Dr. Tommy Mitchell of our staff spoke to a large group at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. This meeting came about due to the efforts of several student leaders on campus. Leading evolutionists Ken Miller and Eugenie Scott had spoken in the area in the last 2–3 weeks, a...

I think once Thursday dodgeball finishes up, I may do these thrice weekly. * AP: “Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.” When the AP, which couldn’t be bothered to worry much about seriously examining Obama during the campaign, is starting to look at Ob...

Section: Mr Nobody: With this heading I am reminded of the famous song of The Beatles from the 1960s called Nowhere Man . The opening lyrics of this famous song, written by the late John Lennon , are: He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Does...

Women, if you’re going to church to try to find yourself a good man, you can pray to Jesus all you like, but your chances aren’t very good. In every denomination of Christianity in the United States, women strongly outnumber the men. If you’re looking for husband material, try the ...

LINK: Freedom Under Fire: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution - With Christopher Hitchens While we are usually focused on the Christian Religious Right here in the U.S., we should be more concerned with what is going on internationally with the muslims. Fundamentalist Muslims, with the help of the UN, ar...

USA Today reports on the latest American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) report, to be released today. When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers. The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful...

Section 4: Heidegger’s Humanism: Heidegger, like Nietzsche before him, was an unbeliever or atheist who could not give up Christian hopes.  According to Gray , and one is wont to believe him, carried along with the author’s enthusiasm and logic, that Heidegger’s terminology is merely new ...

This is brilliant and pretty much spot-on.  50 Reasons I reject evolution. These are just a few: 10.) Because the theory of evolution (which, according to scientists, perfectly explains the richness and diversity of life on Earth) contradicts biblical literalism… ya know, flat Earth with a firmam...

Chapter 2 of John Gray’s book is divided into 15 subsections. Section 1: At The Masked Ball In popular psychology we read about all the different masks we wear as we go about our daily business, e.g., that of parent, teacher, bus driver, patient, student or whatever, and, indeed, we change those m...