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War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way – Lawrence Wilkerson
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George […]
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A Response to the Death of Osama bin Laden
This has to be said: On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan. Within moments, a media blitz ran across virtually all television networks in what could only be […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 3 – Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius
There are three Greco-Roman pagan passages extremely important to the defenders of the Christian myth. They are the works of three major non-Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries – Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger. Let’s closely examine these passages and see why they cannot serve us as justification for reliable […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 2 – Flavius Josephus
When addressing the historical nature of Jesus Christ, one issue repeatedly raised is the purported “evidence” of his existence to be found in the writings of Flavius Josephus, the famed Jewish general and historian who lived from about 37 to 100 CE. In Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews appears the notorious passage regarding Christ called […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 1 – Historical Silence
“Apart from the New Testament writings and later writings dependent on these, our sources of information about the life and teaching of Jesus are scanty and problematic” – F.F. Bruce, New Testament History. “The only definite account of his life and teachings is contained in the four Gospels for the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke […]
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Map of Colonial Powers in Africa
Map on the left was produced in 1889 by George Cawston titled “Africa South of the Equator” showing the existence of boundary treaties. For the first time in African maps, you begin to see straight lines; however they are not drawn by Africans nor for Africans. The map is also colored coded: Orange = Belgium […]
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The Parallel Sayings of Four Mystical Traditions
Let’s compare religious teachings for a quick second, shall we? Specifically, let’s compare the teachings of four of our greatest and most influential mystical teachers. Now, there isn’t much evidence for the historical existence of any of these individuals and even worse, none of them ever wrote a word on their philosophy. Nonetheless, I feel […]