A Holiday Prayer In the spirit of this joyous time of feasting and giving, I offer this solemn appreciation, A Holiday Prayer for the Hypocrite of any Faith. Thank you (insert your God here) . . . For the tortured beef we are about to receive. For the milk the creatures were raped to conceive. […]
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Humanity the God
Although time and translation have reversed roles, we have here Michelangelo’s conveniently male depiction of one — and certainly caucasian (note, beyond the obvious skin tone, the disproportionately small penis, lengthened still unrespectable by its tapering foreskin) — creating god in his image (clothed, in his shame) sprawled in the bosom of youthful nudity, thus […]
Comparing Us to Animals?
Us and Them, Let’s See Who hasn’t heard numerous times before that, “You can’t compare humans to animals. That’s ridiculous.” For example, you can’t compare the Jewish Holocaust with the animal holocaust or black slavery to the slavery of animals. Or, simply human suffering to animal suffering. I agree, it’s preposterous. It’s belittling. No valid […]
Changed
They tell me I’ve changed, but they don’t know the half. They say I’ve lost my mind, but it was never mine to begin. —At an art fair in Southern Indiana artists peddle their overpriced wares, nice as they are, to the interested disinterested masses who will go home carrying mostly what they came with. There’s […]
God of Abraham
Once upon a time, I believed that God, the cruel and vengeful God of Abraham, wasn’t real.[1] I was wrong. He is real. And he is very, very influential. Although, like Santa Claus, he exists as an idea entirely in the mind of the believer or dupe. But this doesn’t make him or any other […]
