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Goliath’s Pagan Worldview
This is my take on Goliath’s pagan worldview. I mention rabbit superstitions, Genghis Khan and Wallace and Gromit.
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Do not trust in these gods!
This is a short tract about men and women who are believed to be divine. Do not put your faith in Prince Philip, Maradona or Tendulkar Mathematician Pythagoras was worshipped by many. He urged his followers to worship the Number 10. He died in 495 BC. Alexander the Great was Read more…
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Is Prince Philip the Chosen One?
Is the Duke of Edinburgh God’s Chosen One? There are people on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific Ocean who worship the Duke of Edinburgh as a god. The islanders used to be committed cannibals and they ate the first two missionaries who came to Tanna. More missionaries Read more…
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Queen Victoria and the Occult
Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert attended séances as early as 1846. In 1861, the year when Prince Albert died, a thirteen-year-old medium, Robert Lees delivered a message from Albert to the Queen in which he called her by a pet name known only to her and her dead Read more…
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Dangerous Faith in Infinite Progress
Story Picture it. Your name is Vladimir and you are working in a Soviet chemical factory in the 1930’s. Suddenly the workers stop working and they start to sing a hymn. Not to God but to ‘electricity’. They sing as follows: Electricity can do anything. It can dispel darkness and Read more…
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Sumo Wrestling and Faith in Salt
Story Obese but immensely strong, the Japanese sumo wrestlers of the Arashio stable were beginning to stir. A young rikishi (wrestler) tripped over camp beds and heaving bodies, cajoling his fellow wrestlers out of their sweet slumbers. Some opened listless eyes, while others ignored the young man’s promptings and returned irritably to sleep. It Read more…
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Dangerous Faith in Santa Muerte
Story Many call her Santa Muerte (Saint Death) but she has been condemned by the Roman Catholic church. The grim, skeletal female figure has a huge following in Mexico. Faith in Santa Muerte is popular among criminals, drug lords and ne’er-do-wells who sometimes crawl piously to a Santa Muerte shrine. Read more…
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Is the Duke of Edinburgh a god?
There are people on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific Ocean who worship Prince Philip, the gaffe-prone husband of Queen Elizabeth as a god. The duke once shocked a student during a visit to China by saying: “If you stay here much longer, you will go home with Read more…
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Twenty false gods/idols invite you to follow them!
Follow me Sobek, the crocodile god. I am a fertility god and far more powerful than Heqet, the ugly frog god. I am virile beyond belief… Follow me Baal! I am a Canaanite fertility god and I promise to bless your harvests if you will only give me your children… Read more…
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Idolatry, Ideology and Islamic State (part 4)
Bob Goudzwaard, a Dutch Christian economist, wrote a brilliant, short book Idols of our Time back in the 1980s. It really is a superb resource for any thinking Christian. He begins the book with these words: We live in a world possessed and we know it. When we focus upon the recent Read more…