Ugh Ape!
For Christians, agape means familial love (Matt: 22.37-40), and relationships based upon that concept of family. AIDS is, of course what is perceived as threatening family values. Largely perceived as a homosexually transmitted disease, it is described in the Bible as one of the...
Thorn in his side
In Eden Woman is created by God from the side of Adam. She is on his side thereafter, as Right is Might, as it were. But it has nothing to do with dexter or sinister as the Romans would have it. The right side is the good side. Either side is good if it is good. It the...
This Troy, this New York; Britney Spears: The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships
Someone was playing a game with the USA on 9/11, or the virus of the Evil One is ancient and strong. `This Troy, this Ilium...` is a common translation of the first few words of ancient Greek from Homer`s (850...
This Troy
Homer`s (c.850 BC) Iliad is about the Trojan horse, and Helen of Troy, who was taken to Troy by Paris. Meneleaus was the husband of Helen, and together with his brother, Agamemnon, King of Sparta, they persuaded the Greeks to send warships to Troy and return Helen to Greece...
The Woman on the Sword
Jesus on the cross is the man who does not defend himself until his Second Coming with the Sword when he exterminates evil and God creates a new heaven and Earth for the Redeemed. The cross represents the crosspiece of his Sword in the Earth. He is helpless so his...
The Saddamite; a psychopathology profiled: sadism, sodomy, BDSM and AIDS
At the last supper, Jesus offers the disciples `bread and wine`, which is the `body and the blood` in the transubstantiation1 of the Catholic Mass in which the churchgoer accepts the Holy Spirit. It is the...
The Boys & Ben Laden
There is a proverb, `The pen is mightier than the sword.` It seems to be an accepted article of faith in the Arab world where they have a tradition of monumental and realistic art. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the entrance to the Princess Nour Bint Abdulrahman women`s...
The Apple of the Eye of America
New York is the `Big Apple` and the `apple` of `the eye` of America upon which all eyes were turned on 9/11 when she became the world`s cynosure. Like Sauron`s eye from Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkein`s (1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) the eye of...
The Spear of God
Fence sitting is what happens when you are observing. The joke I always remember is that of the elephant sitting on a fence. What time is it? Time to get a new fence. It is about the weight of the creature. But wait is what fence-sitters do. They look at both sides and don`t...
Sodomy and Come Horror
Women`s possessiveness has often been criticized but I can`t. For me she represents the Holy Spirit, which is the Shekinah or Glory of God written of in the Song of Songs (1.2), the Holy Spirit (Spear writ) or Paraclete (1 John: 2.1) that is Eternal Woman and the...