Maps of Meaning, discussion – Part 4a, Rites, Rituals and Initiations

This is a shorter post. There’s a couple of reasons for this: it’s cold out, and so I’m walking less ― especially with my daughter in a sling ― and I’ve fallen behind on the podcasts I enjoy and perhaps more importantly, knowing that I’m less than half way through the book and seeing it…

Why it’s impossible to argue that God is immoral

God's morality can be evaluated in two ways that I see: either one can assume that God exists and judge God according to the Book one accepts and what they believe It created, else God can be assumed to be nothing more than the work of fiction whose role changes depending on which story one…

20. The Biblical God is an Incompetent Redeemer

So this is it. Nearly a month of reading for you (and a weekend of writing for me, I knocked all these posts out at nearly the same time and just scheduled them to be one daily. There’s no telling what I have gotten up to while these were uploading themselves) and the climax to…

I am Born Drowning

Imagine a drowning man out to sea. He is splashing and waving and yelling for help. Near the man is a small boat and on that boat is a man in a blue and red leotard with his underwear on the outside and a giant “S” on the front; Superman. Superman throws a rope out…