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Zombie Apocalypse

Is Islam a, or the, "religion of peace"? There can be no answer to that question that does not dissolve into semantics on the one hand or propaganda on the other. The question partakes of the essentialist or logocentrist fallacy: what is the "essence" of a thing as distinct from the thing itself? One suspects that when people offer their opinion on the "essence" of Islam, whether peaceful or not, what we are really hearing is merely their favorite part. The question seems ...

More Mortality

This morning I heard a news report about a genetic study revealing the existence of a "longevity gene." If you have it, you will be predisposed to a longer lifespan, a hundred years or more. If you lack it, you might still live past a century but it will require more work. You know, like the joke about the fitness buffs that may not live a whole hundred years, but it sure will feel like it! But the longevity gene explains something else, another old saw, almost a...

Acting toward Death

Jesus once sat down to watch an old man digging up the earth with a spade. Said Jesus, "O Lord God, take away his hope." At once the man put down his spade and lay down. After an hour, Jesus said: "O Lord God, restore hope to him." At once he got up, and got busy again. Then Jesus asked him what had happened, and he said: "While I was laboring my soul whispered to me, 'How much longer will you labor, now that you are an old man?' So I tossed my spade aside and lay down...

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Against the Gods

Clash of the Titans 2010

In my previous essay I discussed the surprising element in both the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts and the 1981 epic Clash of the Titans: both had Zeus and Hera envisioning the far-off day when the human race would be able to stand on its two feet and would no longer need or believe in the gods, whereupon they must fade into the clouds that shadow the summit of Olympus. I wrote it on the eve of the debut of the remake of Clash of the Titans, though ...

Sword & Sandal Shocker

I have always loved the old movies about gladiators, monsters, and gods, usually based on Greek and Roman mythologies (mostly interchangeable), though a second tier of these flicks seemed to mix Bible, Greco-Roman and other myths in some vague way—who the hell was "Ursus" anyway? The Steve Reeves Hercules flicks were terrific, and just about anything Ray Harryhausen worked on was great. One of my very favorites was Jason and the Argonauts. I have seen it many times, and it never pales. I...

A Cleansing Jihad

Zarathustra Speaks:

Robert M. Price

A Cleansing Jihad

Feb. 2, 2010

Though it is not even the most recent case of it, the Fort Hood massacre needs to be considered as a blatant act of Islamo-Fascist terrorism on American soil. That much ought to be obvious, yet to some it is not.

As I heard a bit of the funeral speech from our president, I was surprised he did not extol the thirteen slain American servicemen and women as noble martyrs for "diversity" who had given their lives in the name of...