The Catholic Church -certainly in Europe- does not have that much power anymore. It is also good that Catholics are called to account harshly for misconduct by servants of the Church, especially those of the twentieth century. It is good that wrong, sometimes very wrong positions of the Church are criticized. However, in terms of… Continue reading The pope and the violent expansion of the muhammedan empires
Category: Demigods
That other form of aristocracy
Abrahamic Religions and that Misogyny-Thingy
Draft of some parts of the long Postface of the book 49:49. Subtitled: The Emperor’s rags, now published. (launched November 2024) Another special role of the USA The first lines are omitted: they form a bridge between the previous paragraph -Slavery and the special role of the US – and this one. Almost every educated… Continue reading Abrahamic Religions and that Misogyny-Thingy
Elsevier: devoted to glorifying Islam
Capitalism, or rather: free enterprise-based production, is among the (Western) achievements that are well worth defending. However, its blessings can only flourish under conditions, and it is certainly not the individual entrepreneurs themselves who defend those conditions. Certainly not the monstrously large corporations whose leadership has little or no affinity with the actual processes of… Continue reading Elsevier: devoted to glorifying Islam
Faith in gods: that Absolutely Inalienable Right
Above is the title of a section towards the end of the Postface in my soon to be published book ‘49:49‘ (subtitled: ‘The Emperor’s Old Rags ‘).Below you find a draft of that part of the book.That postface takes up 40% of the book. ” I T is crucial to keep in mind what ‘inalienable’… Continue reading Faith in gods: that Absolutely Inalienable Right
The Focal Points and Priorities of the Islam-activists
On November 2, 2004, Theo van Gogh -you can find his picture on the homepage of this site- was murdered. Because of that, five years later, I completed my first book: ‘Islamofobie? Een nuchter antwoord’. Yes that is Dutch. (Hier kan het nog steeds besteld worden). ‘Islamophobia? A down to earth answer‘ seems to me… Continue reading The Focal Points and Priorities of the Islam-activists
Kaïn and Abel, the Hebrews and the demigods
The letter to the Hebrews This so called ‘Bible-reading’ is a little bit different from the first two. Those were aboout the very first book -Genesis- too, but in the letter to the Hebrews that can be found in the New Testament there is a very interesting ‘explanation’ of that tiny passage in the Old… Continue reading Kaïn and Abel, the Hebrews and the demigods