So, where once there was a temple to plain-old Amon, by the first century AD there was one to Jupiter-Zeus-Amon! When Christianity came to Rome and then to Egypt, things got even more complicated. Many folks who visit Egypt are surprised to see paintings that look like Mary and t...
free of. And you know, you can even see where it overlaps to some extent with our tendency to buy into various fairly outlandish religious beliefs that have been normalized, and now we're like, oh yeah, sure, but there's a way that Scientology is no more weird, say than Christianity....
yet classical culture left its imprint here, too. As in South Asia, Greek rather than Roman culture was most readily apparent, but these Greek elements were often linked to Christianity. For example, when monks at the Abba Garima Monastery in Ethiopia translated the ...
I have not had a terrible life (I don't have cancer and I didn't grow up eating dirt in Ethiopia), but when I think about my life versus others, it really is terrible. I won't say I was born ugly, but I certainly became ugly fast. This has come a close second place in ...
Magdalen College seen from the River Cherwell. Here Tolkien, a devout Catholic whose faith helped shape his stories, convinced C.S. Lewis to accept Christianity.Kieran Dodds The tale of Númenor begins after the First Age. The primal evil power, Morgoth, has been vanquished by elves and mor...
Christianity in Europe had smashed a lot of the idols of the older faith, and also abolished the schools of pagan philosophy. Plato’s academy was suppressed in 529 by Justinian the Great, villain of Robert Graves’s Count Belisarius but Plato was also considered a saint amongst Eastern ...
The first Christians to successfully settle Ireland came from Ethiopia and Egypt. The established the first fellowships, built the first monasteries, established the now defunct Irish Othordox Church. That is part of why you have so many Black Saints in Irish Christianity. The four...
com where considerable space is devoted to portraying Obama as a candidate whose ties to Kenya and Islam are greater than his ties to America and Christianity. We have already been given a stark, indeed depressing, example of how Obama has sought to counteract his detractors' claims that he...
“I am with Philip Roth when he marvels: “If supplanting Jesus Christ with snow can enable my people to cosy up to Christmas, then let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” | @TanyaGold1 ” so they are as much as revealing their hatred for jesus christ and ...