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I must agree with bgruagach. Taken literally, the Bible condemns homosexuality. It also condemns violating the Sabbath by not extending its blessings to the land and to animals, allowing menstruating women into sacred areas, not marrying your brother’s widow, leaving the women, children, and...

Hi, littlemissattitude (love the handle!), and welcome to Comparative Religion! I absolutely agree with you about modern perceptions of our ancestor's talent, imagination, and ability. One of my peeviest of pet peeves is Eric van Daniken and his ilk, who blithely declare that since modern...

True, Darkyl. That is the explkanation of the most famous of the Nessie photos--the rather blurry one with a head and neck extending straight up out of the water, looking remarkeably like what they used to call Brontosaurus. I believe the photo was from the mid-thirties. Purportedly, they used a...

Sudden additional thought. I saw, recently, an absolutely preposterous book--forget the title--that claimed that Akhenaten was Jesus. Not Moses. JESUS. Makes Bloodline of the Grail look like a masterwork of research and scholarly care. Is it possible the writers of that BBC program were...

Sounds like a great program, Brian. I hope I can catch it. The shared resurrection idea is fascinating--and it's important, if it's true, as a possible precurser to Christian beliefs. However, I've never heard the idea presented that way, not even remotely. If the notion that the king could...

And I'll chime in here with an "I agree" as well. Crowley was an extraordinarily talented magician. To my mind, he was also a tragic figure, able to master the self-discipline necessary to hone his magical work, yet unable to apply that discipline in his life. He seemed to feel above such...

While the objective reality of reincarnation may remain beyond rational proof, one of the best proofs I know is in the increasing number of accounts of young children who remember past lives. In Buddhist and Hindu cultures, of course, reincarnation is accepted as a natural part of the worldview...

In this science fiction author's humble opinion, B-5 was the best SF ever to appear on film or TV. Other American TV shows had used the concept of an on-going story arc (soap operas, if nothing else!) but its use in an epic SF story here was masterful and unknown in SF programs. For each...

The story of Lady Sheba reminds me of Alexander Saunders and his split from Gardnerian tradition to create what became known as the Alexandrian tradition of Wicca. This was in the late '50s, I believe. He declared himself "King of the Witches" . . . a fascinating claim considering how the Craft...

Wow. Wonderful topic. Yes, Brian, I normally would ramble off on a ten-page discourse about determining our own reality--though I must point out that I DO believe in the laws of physics. No amount of believing otherwise will help me walk on air if I step off the top story of a building! In...

Kirkegaard wrote about faith as a "blind leap into the darkness." For any of you who saw the third Indiana Jones movie--the one involving a search for the Holy Grail--there is a perfect metaphor there. Indie comes to a sheer cliff above a deep canyon, and realizes he needs to step off and trust...

Here's a new topic for discussion: synchronicity. I was discussing this on another metaphysical board, and thought some here might be interested. I am coming to the belief that synchronicity may well prove to be the root of all magic, craftwork, divination, and even predictive systems like...

Hi, Elizabeth! Welcome back!

I agree. One possible model for this is found on another board I visit occasionally. They have an area called "the BBQ Pit" where members can vent, let off steam, and even blast one another into smasll, crunchy cinders to their hearts' content. That's where the debates are taken if they get...

Originally Posted by WiccanWade And, I've always really thought it to be interesting that the term for "Lord" comes from Adonai, or some such (I'd have to look it up to feel 100% accurate on my spelling, there), which is clearly a derivation of Adonis, a vegitation, or yearly dying Lord*...

I tend to agree that the centurion probably didn't say those words. Seems just a little too pat and perfect to my ear, if you know what I mean. My point was simply that it seemed more likely that the centurion's words were invented by writers interested in reaching and impressing gentile readers...

Gadfrey! Sorry about that, everyone! I cut-and-pasted the above from a Word document, and all of my paragraphs disappeared! Forgive the single-paragrapoh density of that epistle, please! It wasn't me, I swear!

The idea that Christ would physically return IN THE LIFETIME OF THOSE WHO KNEW HIM is extant throughout the New Testament, not just in I Peter. In Mark 14:62, Jesus tells the chief priests, "Ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven."...

I can address the idea of possession from two diametrically opposed traditions. First, when I was a Charismatic fundamentalist Christian, many years ago, I took literally the Gospel injunction to "go forth and cast out unclean spirits." On numerous separate occasions, I found myself engaged in...

A note here about "sons of God." That term was QUITE prevalent throughout the near- and middle East in the last half of the 1st millenium BCE, and was deeply imbedded in Jewish mysticism. Remember those enigmatic verses in Genesis 6: 1 - 4, about how "the sons of God saw the daughters of men...