However in France the term Bougre and its derivatives followed a different evolution and today they no longer refer to heretics or homosexuals, having even lost many of their negative connotations. From the end of the 16th century, the termBougrebegan to be trivialize and acquired a certain co...
Would He be any different today towards “the Jews”, or even towards “the Christians”? And should “the Christians” drop the ball (as “the Jews” had done previously), will God choose another who will be responsive to Him? Yes. “Once saved, always saved” IS a false doctrine ...
While its outer appearance is the same as any other skin on the penis, the foreskin is home to manynervebundles andbloodcells, and its inner surface is similar to the inside of your mouth, helping the glans stay naturally lubricated. Between the outer layer and the moist inner layer is a...
Today, you can find poets and poetry of all sorts. While poetry may not be as much a part of the mainstream as it had been in previous generations, it's certainly not a lost art form if you know where to look. Many bars, cafés and schools still host poetry readings where experienced...
but also whether they had a Jewish grandparent. The idea was to cast the net wide enough so as to identify even non-practicing Jews. The results were processed using IBM technology at the rate of 25,000 punch cards per minute. It produced chilling results. People i...
(I would maintain that practicing any philosophy or religion coherently — including Christianity or Buddhism — ain’t easy.) The Stoics recognized that none of us is a sage, and that we will inevitably fall short of the ideal. Here is how Epictetus puts it: “Consider at what price you...
He attended Harvard medical school, worked as a practicing physician, and served as the faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. Today, he’s the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. That’s the kind of résumé that has traditionally led to a major federal ...
If you had not converted to Christianity, and lived on as a Jew instead, and studied a subject at university like media as an example, then how would it work that the elite fellow Jews pick you out and know that you are a practicing Jew, and promote you to a high position, higher ...
Today, as we saw in the plot to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there are many “activists” from the anti-American groups who operate freely in American society and can easily be “programmed to kill.” In that case, however, the would-be assassin got cold feet and turn...
So many people leading lives that numb them, cut themselves off from the world around them, exhaust them.” And then Charlotte inserted something to the effect of, “Yeh. Who are the crazy ones? They’re crazy, too. We’re all crazy.” Yes, I do believe a lot of people in the ...