To this day there has never existed a bureaucracy which could compare with that of Egypt. —Max Weber (1909) The Great Pyramid at Giza The Great Pyramid is the last of the Seven Wonders of the World. It contains at least 2.3 million stone blocks...
As Osiris lives, he also will live; as Osiris dies not, he will not die…. —The Pyramid Texts (ancient Egypt) …And sins forgeuenesse. And of the flesh the again-rising… —The Apostles’ Creed (pre-Norman England) Osiris Rising The Egyptian...
He’s such a tall, dark, strong, and handsome brute. —Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast Once in a while we mishear the words of a song. “Olive, the other reindeer” and “José, can you see?” come to mind. Sylvia Wright calls these mistakes...
God said to Abraham, kill me a son Abe said man you must be puttin me on God said no, Abe said what God said you can do what you want Abe but Next time you see me coming you better run Bob Dylan How Big Is God? Existentialist Paul Tillich spoke...
The Imitation of Christ —a book by Thomas à Kempis (1418) Religion and Power There are three different religious approaches to community and freedom. The first abandons politics and society at large in the name of religion. The communities it...
WILLIE: I can’t eat this. INDIANA: That’s more food than these people eat in a week. They’re starving…You’re insulting them, and you’re embarrassing me. Eat it. Eat it. —The Temple of Doom (1984) The stranger did not lodge in...
Let earth receive her King. —Isaac Watts Incarnation and Politics The word incarnate means “in the flesh.” For the pagan world, the State was God incarnate. The pagan world worshipped god-kings, and raised pyramids and ziggurats to the religion...
…binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out, and with my body buried in the sands of the sea at low-water mark… —Masonic oath His oath, His covenant, His blood… —Edward H. Mote Those Bloody...
The glorious city of God is my theme in this work. —Augustine of Hippo There’s A New Sheik In Town “So you have met the new sheik?” “Yes. He seems a wise and honorable man. He comes from the Land Between the Rivers. From Ur originally, I...
Be comforted, small immortals. You are not the voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come. —C. S. Lewis, Perelandra A Man Named Job The book of Job is set chronologically before the Exodus and...
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made…. —Paul Simon We were educated again and again that the emperor was a living god. —Enomoto-san in Flyboys The Making of a God The year was 1854. Commodore Perry and his fleet had come and...
God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth… —Acts 17:26 Race and Racism Very few people know the complete title of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). Modern editors won’t put it on the book cover...
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