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Mourning Announcements

Today is the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion. Okay, it probably really isn’t, and we don’t even know what year that happened, let alone the specific date. While Easter does sometimes fall this early, it’s rare. And if these first century … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Easter, History, Holidays, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, Judaism, Middle Ages, Passover, Religion, rosh hashanah | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, akedah, angels, apocrypals, bible, bishop james ussher, cain and abel, calendar, chronology, creation, crucifixion, exodus, feast of the annunciation, gabriel, garden of eden, genesis, good friday, gospel of luke, gospels, human sacrifice, isaac, jesus, john the baptist, lord of the rings, lucifer, martyrdom, melchizedek, moses, one ring, podcasts, pope benedict xvi, st. dismas, summer solstice, vernal equinox, virgin mary, winter solstice |

The Simple Life

Something I’ve been looking into recently is the idea that the book of Genesis has, at least in parts, a bias against civilization. I don’t mean so much in the sense of polite behavior, but as in the more historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Ethnicity, Food, Gender, History, Judaism, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Semitic | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, agricultural revolution, agriculture, babylon, bible, cain and abel, cities, civilization, garden of eden, genesis, herding, how to read the bible, hunter-gatherers, isaac, israel, jacob, james l. kugel, judah, kenites, neolithic era, nomads, tower of babel |

I Have Learned the Value of Human Sacrifice

Human sacrifice is a quite controversial subject, as a lot of the information we have on it was provided by enemy cultures that might have been trying to slander other groups. It kind of seemed to me that people who … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Mesoamerica, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Roman Empire | Tagged abraham, agamemnon, aztecs, bible, genesis, genocide, holy war, human sacrifice, iphigenia, isaac, jephthah, phoenicia, ritual, sacrifice |

Burn Up the Old, Ring in the New

I have to say that I find the notion of religious sacrifice to be rather interesting. I don’t mean sacrifice in the broadest sense of simply giving up something you care about, but the offering of objects, animals, and sometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Greek Mythology, Islam, Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham, abraham's curse, animal sacrifice, bible, bruce chilton, guilt, human sacrifice, iphigenia, isaac, ishmael, jephthah, king minos of crete, poseidon, prometheus, ritual, sacrifice, zeus |

I’ll Take Canaan

This post on Unreasonable Faith depicts a page from a newsletter for conservative Christian homeschoolers, teaching how to confront atheists who cite “the most ridiculous stories in the Bible.” Wait, so the person who wrote this is ADMITTING that there … Continue reading →

Posted in Bronze Age, Christianity, History, Judaism, Middle East, Religion | Tagged abraham, bible, canaan, exodus, genocide, isaac, israel, jacob, jericho, joshua, judges, might makes right |

Qiblahs and Bits

Reading this entry about Muhammad’s change in the direction Muslims should pray got me thinking about how this practice started in the first place, so I did a little bit of research (mostly on Wikipedia, admittedly). The idea of facing … Continue reading →

Posted in Islam, Judaism, Religion | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, black stone, genesis, hubal, isaac, ishmael, jerusalem, kaaba, mecca, muhammad, qiblah, quran, quraysh, sarah, saudi arabia, temple mount |

Whither Eden?

It’s common in mythology for people to consider nearby locations to be the center of the world and/or the first place to be created. Egyptian mythology, for instance, cites several different cities in Egypt as where land first emerged from … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Egyptian, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham, bible, canaan, eden, egypt, euphrates, gihon, havilah, hiddekel, isaac, israel, jerusalem, joseph smith, mecca, missouri, nile, pison, tigris |