And Don’t Forget Poetry. Or Fiction.

“This is really dangerous, and the way to counteract it is to prescribe balanced reading for yourself. What I mean is this. Read theology, as I say, but always balance it, not only with Church history but with biographies and the more devotional type of reading. Let me explain why this is so important. Your …

Though Technology Would Like To

“But even after a cure for syphilis had been found and a sure-fire preventative for pregnancy invented, a monster would appear after the revolution, as it did in 1979 with Alien, because the monster symbolizes the ineradicable nature of man’s conscience. Technology can never kill it” (E. Michael Jones, Monsters from the Id, p. 133).

A Sexual Haunting

“As syphilis spread all over Europe, the horror at its unprecedented virulence spread with it. It was the sexual version of the black plague. As the descriptions of the doctors who first diagnosed the disease make clear, the advent of syphilis had much to do with the iconography of horror. The horrible faces in horror …