the once and future kings (slight return)

Posted by Quixie at 12:30 PM

The eminent Bishop N.T.Wrong has written a post in his excellent blog outlining some similarities between the Arthurian legend and its Jesu...

on St.(sic) Cyril ...

Posted by Quixie at 4:11 PM

I overheard a conversation about saints among some Catholic folks in a chat room. I offered that saints are just a "Catholic Hall of F...

I love this kid! . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 4:50 PM

Funny videos

new word of the day: ignostic

Posted by Quixie at 4:34 PM

I just yesterday heard the word ignosticism. Nutshell definitions: An atheist is someone who doesn't believe that there is a "God....

1000 years of Darkness

Posted by Quixie at 11:49 AM

This video is very poignant in its description of what can (and DID) happen when science is repressed or impeded. HT - Conspiracy Factory pe...

who the heck is J.P.Holding ...

Posted by Quixie at 4:15 PM

. . . and why does he hate me? I was googling, trying to reference an essay that I had written some time ago, when I came across a man named...

Open Question for NT Scholars #1

Posted by Quixie at 11:45 AM

I'm going to start a new feature on this blog, in which I will ask some of the questions that are the most problematic for me as a stude...

good versus bad mythicists

Posted by Quixie at 1:33 PM

I came across this interview of Richard Carrier (the episode of the show " Faith and Freethought " is titled " How NOT to Arg...

weave study . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:49 PM

weave study 4" X 5" woven watercolor paper Ó .

new piece . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:53 PM

man in a black suit 5½" X 6¾" woven newsprint and acrylic paint I've been experimenting with woven paper as a painting medium....

pésame . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:36 AM

My good friend Frank's niece, Terra Frances Wagner, died this weekend in a car wreck at the age of sixteen. May she rest in peace and ma...

the Hazon Gabriel tablet . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:56 AM

The recent discovery of a tablet with an 80 line inscription in Hebrew, which possibly contains a pre-christian reference to an anointed on...

the Antichrist, eh? (lemming logic)

Posted by Quixie at 1:45 PM

Leaflet pasted on to a wall in San Fransico's Chinatown district. I came back from California to read some blogs in which a very curious...

Sam Harris surveys ...

Posted by Quixie at 8:15 PM

Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation , is conducting some research and has asked for volunteers on his w...

Paul and the pastorals . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:16 PM

Over at Debunking Christianity I was surprised to find someone actually defending Pauline authorship for the pastorals. Curiously, the argu...