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By Martin H. Levinson If we all owned guns we’d get faster service at the DMV, be listened to more respectfully in the office. Muggers would think twice about robbing Jesus on the street because the son of God could be packing a pistol and passersby might ta... More »
WASHINGTON – Congressman James Bath took advantage of his proximity to Pope Francis during his address to Congress to steal the Pope’s water glass and gulp some of the sacred (if chlorinated) Washington, DC tap water. Luckily when the Pope’... More »
by Kurt Degerstrom Right-wing “King James Only” adherents, who claim their namesake is the only pure and perfect version of the Bible, have a new opponent this week: software engineer Marty Blackhouse. Blackhouse, who began retranslating the Bible from anc... More »
Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America Les Kaye Review By Dan Geddes Zen At Work is a striking title for a book, precisely because it sounds paradoxical. “Zen” conjures up images of bald, white-robed men sitting in the lotus po... More »
Omens of Millennium Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes See also reviews of Bloom’s Book of J, Anxiety of Influence, and Western Canon. See also Elaine Pagel’s The Gnostic Gospels. Omens of Millennium – Key Passages Epigraph Introduction Prelude: S... More »
The Gospel According To Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers by Stephen Mitchell Review By Dan Geddes Stephen Mitchell’s project in The Gospel According to Jesus is to present and interpret the authentic... More »
The Kabbalah of Money Rabbi Nilton Bonder Review By Dan Geddes I found the title misleading, insofar as the mystical connotation of Kabbalah were largely missing. I think this book could easily have been titled more within the Jewish tradition without being mi... More »
by Dan Geddes 1 March 2000 Smoking cigarettes is a cult, a religion, a philosophy. Like most belief-systems, Smoking separates its adherents from non-adherents, leaving the faithful huddled together and zealous. Smokers believe in Smoking despite all logic and... More »
15 December 1999 by Dan Geddes Techniques for creating successful religious cults have changed dramatically since the cult heyday of the 1970s. Millions of people are desperate to find the definitive “answers” to life’s big questions—even if inc... More »
The Four Noble Truths The Dalai Lama Review By Dan Geddes The Dalai Lama’s The Four Noble Truths was originally given as a lecture in London in 1996. The Dalai Lama introduces the essential tenets of Buddhism to a Western audience. For the Dalai Lama the t... More »