People Aren't Cattle
To be sure, there is an important sense in which they are; if the Lord God Almighty sees fit to use that as a metaphor you can be assured there is a good reason.
Will We Have Children In Heaven?
Spoiler: My answer is, I don’t know. My goal here is to attempt to convince you that you may not know as well as you think you do either.
Last night the kids wanted to watch the ball drop. I figured, why not. But we were also watching the college football game and it ran right up to the wire.
The Head of the Conspiracy
One of the perennial arguments of the conspiratorially-minded is who is on top. Is it the Freemasons? Jesuits? Catholic clergy? Illuminati? The Khazarian Mafia? Any of several variety of aliens?
Dreams and the Externality of Spiritual Attacks
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had vivid and complicated dreams. Not just “I ran into my dad at school and he was playing basketball with my old swimming coach and then I noticed that the gym had no roof and I was wearing no pants; how random!
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 14 and 15
I’m just going to quote this chapter, because I find it amusing, and I’ve said what I have to say on the topic of Roman religion.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 12 and 13
The next several chapters continue to examine the question of what religion does in a polity. Many of these chapters break cleanly into an examination of how Rome treated religion, followed by Machiavelli’s examination of the Christianity/Catholicism of his day, dominated by Rome.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 9 through 11
Machiavelli gives his chapter 9 the subtitle “That to give new Institutions to a Commonwealth, or to reconstruct old Institutions on an entirely new basis, must be the work of one Man.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 7 and 8
In Chapter 7, Machiavelli discusses the utility of the ability to do what both translations call “accuse”; I think in modern terms that might be better rendered as “bring a lawsuit”.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 3 through 6
These chapters consist on several ruminations of the power the people of Rome had, especially against their nobility, and the utility of that to the Republic.