Heroes of the desert
The Irish comedian Dave Allen has a sketch about Adam and Eve that points out the inconsistencies in the story told in the Book of Genesis. He first notices Adam’s … Continue reading
Holy families
I started by noticing similarities between two pictures. The one above is “The Virgin and Child with St Anne and John the Baptist”, the so-called Burlington House cartoon (a cartoon … Continue reading
Jesus: the evidence
What if we discovered the gospel writers had made a mistake? Really there had been several Jesus Christs in Judea at the same time (actually there were a few Jeshuas) … Continue reading
Akhnaton, Zarathushtra and Moses
Monotheism is the belief there is one god, god meaning the creator of this world, and omnipotent over it. It is contrasted, usually unfavourably, with polytheism, belief in many gods, … Continue reading
A company of wolves: Jason and the Argo crew
1. HEROES OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD The life of heroes of the classical world, like Achilles and Odysseus, was a lot different to that we imagine. The Mycenean clans in … Continue reading
Between two worlds: angels and devils
The universe is all that is and all we can ever know about it. But there may be other universes, inhabited by other beings. We know their names. Gabriel, Raphael, … Continue reading
Five pictures of ancient Egypt
Egypt lives in everyone’s imagination as one of the most ancient of civilisations. Whether it be vanished glories buried in the sand, like those that inspired Shelley’s Ozymandias, or Hollywood … Continue reading
