Trump as the Talking Heads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk

Isaiah 5:20/-Alex Epstein: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels-( Wellesley College 2015)

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNPBZ6BZZ8

Linda Sarsour's call for a Jihad in a religious context as opposed to a linguistic context.

Linguistically, the Arabic word "jihad" means a striving or a struggle, no one really disputes that fact. Do they? But Ms. Sarsour was at the ISNA convention, and clearly seemed to be speaking as a believing pious Muslim in her speech, and not, per se, as a linguist. So that alone, in and of...

The oh so "sophisticated" delusions of the modern mind: an Irish pagan's perspective from the classic era.

I dedicate this to Janus, the two faced god of beginnings. After well more than a decade, the war still rages on with no end visible on the horizon. Three American presidents have now sat in that seat of power, and nothing changed nor does it look likely to be improving anytime soon. The first...

Women in Islam and women not as of yet submitted in Europe

From the August 23 copy of the spectator, couple paragraphs in. But this year Islamists are specifically targeting women. When Salman Abedi detonated his suicide bomb at the Ariana Grande concert in May, killing seventeen females (and five males), he did so knowing it would be full of teenage...

ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape- NY times - And what the Times left out

QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and...

Worshiping at the altar of the god of political correctness: a pagan's perspective

Reporting on the "leftist-septicemia-meme" Now some may not like my title, that's just too bad. Really it is. Political correctness falls under the definition of a religion. (def # 2) a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons People...

From a cultural tradition devoted to deicide: A open lament for modernity

Early 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin deicida ‘killer of a god’, or directly from Latin deus ‘god’ + -cide   https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/deicide   I come from a long, illustrious and distinguished philosophical tree. One embedded with a deep abiding cultural...

From a cultural tradition devoted to deicide: An open lament for modernity

  Early 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin deicida ‘killer of a god’, or directly from Latin deus ‘god’ + -cide https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/deicide The definition says to kill a god. This would have been one of the thousands of various gods, goddess, and demigods....

Fetishizing Islam: How we can rest assured that Islam has nothing to do with FGM

     Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin is the head priest of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a branch of Islam with thousands of followers in the UK.He is accused of promoting the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)....