Yet, in the short span of a century and a half, we’ve upgraded to automobiles that go from zero to 60 mph in a matter of seconds. We’ve gone from men publicly proclaiming manned flight is impossible to jet airplanes traveling several times the speed of sound. Does all this make you...
Sure, everyone understood those. But insurance fraud wasn’t really the realm of the genuinely poor; this is white collar crime, and I imagine it carried the same sense of awe and cleverness as cybercrime does to contemporary readers (most of whom wouldn’t have the first clue of how to ...
They exhort their flocks to go out and share these human lies as “the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” when in fact they are no such thing!What does the word “Gospel” actually mean? Here is one dictionary’s definition: “The word gospel comes from the Old English word god meaning ‘good...
This does not mean that the clandestine authors were impervious to modern philosophical ideas. Indeed, while criticizing and contesting them, they also used, transformed, and adapted them for their own pur-poses, which were completely different from those of the original authors.Certainly, the ...