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29 Aug

The Politics of Knowing: A Challenge to Gnostics

“All the comparisons that (Jesus) makes tend to show that the disciples of Jesus are necessarily few in number with little power. The leaven in the dough. The salt in the soup. The sheep in the middle of wolves, and how many other images. Jesus seems to have never had the vision of a triumphant [...]

02 Aug

DOGMA is not a bad word.

I’m still seeing “dogma” consistently used as a bad word. As in, people believe that “dogmas” are bad simply because they’re dogmas. I feel like I need to say something about it, because it seems to me that holding an opinion or adopting a teaching that holding opinions and adopting teachings is bad is a [...]

22 Jul

God of Power, God of Light

 God of Power, God of Light
 God of Power, God of Light…God of Power and Light; how often have we heard these two terms used in close conjunction?…as if they went “hand-in-hand”, complimentary aspects of a single Deity?
In truth, they are nothing of the kind.. Rather, they are two competing conceptions of God, two irreconcilable visions [...]

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