We really have to get out of Iraq. Hawking: anyone who talks about his IQ is a loser. Turner: Christianity is for losers. Now there's a best seller. The more one thinks of the Jesus myth the more bizarre and sadistic it seems...and that goes for most of Western Art from Duccio (hell before him) right until the Enlightenment, when a few saw the light of reason.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
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