“Multiple unabashed Muslim sources varyingly describe Mohammed himself presiding over the beheading of at least 500 Jewish men, five at a time. Their bodies were buried in a long ditch. Other Muslim sources place the number of Jewish men slain as high as 900. Their wives and daughters became sex slaves for Muslim men . …
Humility Produces Great Art
“But even if artists did not have the high honor we tend to grant them today . . . they did make beautiful things—so beautiful, in fact, that we so many centuries later still go to look at their works and often pay much to have their works restored in order to hand them down …
Pious Mutilation
“Islam’s widespread practice of amputating the clitoris and sometimes part or even all of the vulva from the genitalia of Muslim women, affirmed in a hadith by Mohammed himself, most like also traces back to the founder’s deliberate abuse of sex to lure pagan males into his cult” (Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. …
When Art Was Real
“The role of artists was not always what it is today. In most cultures, including our own before the new period that began somewhere between 1500 and 1800, artists were primarily craftsmen: art meant making things according to certain rules, the rules of the trade. Arts were accomplished workers who knew how to carve a …
Coolness Quotient (CQ)
Finally someone came up with a way to objectively measure this. I was quite pleased. Take the “coolness” test now. HT: David Field
Tell Me More About This Eternal Life
“In the Koran, he repeatedly redefines Judeo-Christianity’s heaven as an enormous God-owned bordello in the sky. In that heavenly brothel, loyal Muslim men—especially those paying the door price of martyrdom—would find a host of virgins called houris, who would forever satisfy all their sexual cravings (see Koran 38:51; 44:54; 55:55-74; 56: 22, 34-36)” (Don Richardson, …
High and Lonely Destiny-ism
“It has been like this since the eighteenth century when the old concept of the artist as craftsman began to be exchanged for a concept that saw him as both a gifted genius and a social and economic outcast” (H.R. Rookmaaker, Art Needs No Justification, p. 5).
A Black and Tan Conversation
For anyone who is interested, I will be discussing Black and Tan with anyone who shows up in the Canon Press cyber cafe on Thursday, February 8th. The time will be 7:30-8:30 pm PST (10:30-11:30 EST). Please realize that you will have to be a registered member of theCafe before February 8th in order to …
Covenant Radio
I was interviewed yesterday by Covenant Radio on the subject of, you guessed it, the federal vision. You can take a listen here.
When Experts Aren’t
“I will not say that a good story for children could never be written by someone in the Ministry of Education, for all things are possible. But I should lay very long odds against it” (C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds, p. 34).