Silver cannon barrels adorned the walls
Bringing the eye upward toward the crucifix
Christ mollified, frozen in time,
Chest bones, protuberances that would have elated a xylophonist.
Body and blood hidden behind golden doors. Read on…
Seems like more evidence against any omnipotent intelligent designer that neither the electrochemical interaction that permitted the bacterial beginning of life on Earth nor natural selection that pruned it— into eyes, hooves, feet, and brains—gave any thought to all the accidental side effects that would occur— like ecstatic joy, pain, love, power, and depression— and as a consequence, we are left on our own to deal with each of these radical, new expressions on Earth as best we can, drawing … Read on…
When Brian was young, he had looked at the moon as a magical place. Now, he saw the cool serenity of the lunar surface and the efforts that it had taken mankind to reach its surface. Although not even an amateur astronomer, Brian had always enjoyed the night sky. It had been a place of both mystery and discovery for him throughout his life. It was also a sight that inspired speculation. How far is it to that star? How … Read on…
I would recommend, for those who have not yet read it, a biography of Madalyn Murray O’Hair: Ann Rowe Seaman’s America’s Most Hated Woman. O’Hair herself reveled in that appellation and used it to portray herself as the ultimate Outsider, a communist, freethinking female and victim of a capitalistic Christian empire. By doing so she made both money and history. O’Hair was apparently born to be a maverick. Her mother Lena had tried to induce a miscarriage, when she found … Read on…