Category: Middle East

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THE HERETICAL PENTAGRAM: FIVE QUESTIONS FEATURING BRENT LANDAU

Jenny Kile recently interviewed Brent Landau and asked him Five Questions. In this interview, he focuses his attention on the New Testament and early Christian writings, with a particular interest in apocryphal and canonical stories about Jesus’ birth. His expertise on these interests is apparent, and unlike some scholars who seem unreceptive to contradictory stories to religious belief, he seems to welcome them, as clues to Truth might be found in all of them. Read more…

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PRESERVING THE ENLIGHTENMENT

We have all seen the images: ISIS Neanderthals smashing up their own heritage and history because they think that the entire universe revolves around a little book, no bigger than the average novel. So where did this barbarity come from? Why have large sections of humanity steered themselves off the tortuous road towards higher civilisation over the many centuries, and into the fetid ditch of depraved ignorance? Read more…