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The god problem: “Acrylic matzoh box — never used (price $5)”
It is at times like these — this one happens to entwine Easter with Pesach, coming upon us in a couple of weeks, and then there’s Ramadan which began yesterday… You might think I took such a detour from what … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged Easter, Jordan River, matzohs, Moses, passover, Pentateuch, Pesach, Ramadan, seders, the Ten Commandments, Torah
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The glory of empire…built by slaves, reparations and lut
Those of us who read Jane Austen are not startled to face facts about the British Empire’s centuries-old role in slavery. Although Austen’s references to slavery are muted, in both Mansfield Park (1814) and her last novel, Persuasion (1818), the … Continue reading
Posted in Racism, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged "Country Houses and the British Empire", "Home Truth", Amazing Grace, Britain's anti-slavery laws, British East India Company, British slavery, British West Indies, Clemson University, East India Company, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Marquess of Lothian, National Trust Properties, Penrhyn Castle, Persuasion, Richard Pennant, Robert Clive, Sam Knight, Slavery Abolition Act, slavery reparations, The Legacies of Slavery database, The National Trust, The New Yorker, the old testament, the Ten Commandments, Tibet
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Thoughts about The Golden Calf. Et cetera.
Earlier today, I pulled my bible from the shelf and dusted it off, intending to use it as a reference for the Golden Calf episode in Exodus, for reasons everyone can certainly grasp. Indeed, as I write this, America’s Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, The god problem
Tagged Cecil B DeMille, CPAC, Exodus, John Heyman, Paramount Pictures, RD Laing, schizophrenia, the bible, the Golden Calf, the old testament, the Pied Piper, the Ten Commandments, Trump, Wikipedia, William Tyndale
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