Sabbath is the Rationale of Creation

The rationale of the brief biblical creation narrative we readin Genesis may be to teach us that its goalreached — on its seventh day, which satisfied humanity’s great needto rest — not just  all people’s bodies but their soul. God’s was the spirit that created all the universe,whose climax was the Sabbath day, and not humanity,a […]

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Mike Huckabee and France-en-Stein

Free love between lovers of utmost refinementcame in in 1816 into stunning alignment.Byron’s personal doctor, one John Polidori,was writing, while Mary was writing the story of Frankenstein, his book which he called The Vampyre,a Vorlage fable that came to inspireBram Stoker to write about Dracula. Thisall happened in Switzerland. Maybe the Swiss, with Byron and […]

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Hanukkah’s Light Brigade

Antiochus Epiphanesdeclared: “Let’s sacrifice a pig,”and in the holy sanctuariestook steps to be the biggest wig,far greater than the Jewish Godwho hates the smell and taste of swine,declaring thus the first jihadagainst the Jews of Palestine. The Maccabees were very brave,abhorring gifts of pagan porkers;like Britons, none would be a slave,these ancestors of most New […]

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