Historical Humanists- Avicenna
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“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”
— Avicenna (Ibn Saud) Read on…
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The True Owner of the Crucifix
In AD 71, six thousand men were crucified along the Appian way from Rome. Each died a long and gruesome death, for the crime of fighting for freedom from a brutal and repressive regime which had them enslaved and fighting one another for sport. Read on…
Cromwell’s Head
Oliver Cromwell came from ambitious stock, which brought him to a bad end—two ends, in fact—and quite a long journey. His great-great granduncle, Thomas Cromwell, was chief advisor to old King Henry VIII, the one with the wives. When Henry broke with the Roman Church (1534), Thomas egged him on, even inciting the arrest and execution of his old friend Sir Thomas More, who remained loyal to Pope Clement. See “A Man for All Seasons,” a wonderful movie, for that … Read on…