Archive for 2010
People Mold God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: [T]he Christianity of the Angles, the Saxons, and the Franks was rudimentary. They were aggressive and martial people and they wanted an aggressive religion… Soldier saints like St. George, St. Mercury and St. Demetrius figured more than God in their piety […]
Sabrina Chap
SublimeFemme brought the music of the wonderful Sabrina Chap to my attention this week. I knew about Sabrina Chap through the incredible collection of stories and art, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction, but had no idea she was a also musician. Her music is very fun, but also clever, and wonderfully queer. Now that you’re […]
Camera Advice
I bought a digital camera 5 years ago in China. A Samsung Digimax U-CA 5, specifically. It’s been a good camera: it survived my clumsiness, held a charge forever, and was easy to use. But now it tends to make all my pictures kind of reddish or yellow and a full battery lasts about 15 […]
What I’ve Noticed
Religious bastards in Virginia are handing out tracts telling women that the way we dress causes rape. Those people should be arrested. Or kicked in the face. I’m always amazed by studies that show how easy it is to manipulate people’s views. Then I start wondering how I can take over the world. Agricultural subsidies need […]
Berry Go Round
I’m hosting this month’s edition of Berry Go Round, so if you’ve written or read something plant related that you particularly liked, send it my way. You can use the submission form or email me at enchantressofnumbers AT gmail DOT com. I’m planning on getting most of the links together in the next week since […]
Just a shoe
Mystical religion is particularly bad for stupid people
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Not everybody was capable of philosophical thought, however, so Falsafah was only for an intellectual elite. It would confuse the masses and lead them into an error that imperiled their eternal salvation. Hence the importance of the esoteric tradition, which kept […]