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Saddleback Church
Posted on November 10, 2007 in Martyrdom Series The Orange
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
A vocal duet with the band/orchestra accompanying.And which part was like being in… er… the other place?
Finding a parking place.
I get in trouble when I write about Saddleback Church, so here’s the mystery worshipper’s report from Ship of Fools.
Martyrdom 8: The Buddha
Posted on May 3, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Myths & Mysticism
You don’t promote enlightenment by inciting pain. You merely increase the level of suffering in another person’s life until she gives in.
Martyrdom 7: Christ and the Cross
Posted on March 28, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Myths & Mysticism
In the original myth, Christ didn’t die so that we might emulate his suffering: he suffered because we suffered.
Martyrdom 6: Catholic Martyrs, Attis, Pious Frauds, and BDSM
Posted on March 9, 2004 in Courage & Activism Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism Strange
It was not for beauty that the early church fathers banned the damaged from celebrating the Mass; the prelates were more concerned about the barbarous lengths to which some interpreted scripture and pagan rites in which initiates altered themselves.
Martydom 5: Vukovar, Guernica, and Hiroshima
Posted on March 5, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism War
I refused to take the side of any government, any army in a war.
Martyrdom 4: The Soot in the Fields
Posted on March 2, 2004 in Lies Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism War
To thwart them, we must tell the whole truth. Sixteen million people died in the Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and “defectives”.
Martyrdom 3: Esprit de Corps
Posted on March 1, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism War
Generals such as Patton like to think that they are the high priests of vast congregations called “armies”, but from what I have heard and read from grunts the spiritual community is more akin to that of Quakers than to the Vatican or Shinto.
Martyrdom 2: Pyramids, Tophets, and a Ram in a Thicket
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism
The man or woman who lies down upon the altar is called a victim, from the Latin victima meaning an animal used for sacrifice. The word comes from an Indo-European root “weik” signifying that which is magic and holy.
Martyrdom 1: The Martyrs of York and Edith Stein
Posted on February 28, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism
Which were the martyrs of York? The ones who killed themselves or the ones who were massacred by the crowd?
