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Spying from the belly of the beast in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Note: The article below written years ago served as one of the springboards for several of Dr. Faria’s Appendices in Stalin, Mao, Communism, and their 21st-Century Aftermath in Russia and China published in 2024 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The article was fully expanded, revised, and updated for Appendices B-E dealing with […]

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A Relevant and Brief History of Islam

1 Comment / Religion and History / By Helen

Introduction Recently, Tom Scholl, who identified himself as a pastor of churches in Ohio and New York, as well as holding positions in several ecumenical organizations, wrote a 3-part article for my local newspaper, The Macon Telegraph, titled “What the Koran says about Christianity.” I thought it would be an interesting series to read, but I

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Martin Luther, the Sale of Indulgences, and the Reformation

Leave a Comment / Religion and History / By Helen

The Sale of Indulgences A few words are in order regarding the Sale of Indulgences that Martin Luther so much decried. The clergy were authorized by the Catholic Church to absolve penitents from the guilt of his sins and from punishment in the hellish inferno of the hereafter, but it did not absolve them from

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Philosophic Ramblings (Part II): Religion and Politics

Leave a Comment / Philosophy and History / By Helen

Since the heyday of Billy Graham in the 1950s to the 1980s, Protestantism has evolved mostly to become silent on secular issues or to speak only to promulgate politically correct (PC) proclamations depending on the trendy issues of the day. I was brought up as a Presbyterian. Presbyterianism originally believed in the Elect and predestination.

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On the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades

1 Comment / Religion and History / By Helen

I apologize in advance to those here who have already assiduously learned these Medieval history lessons and find them redundant in their intellectual ordnance. If you know the facts on the much-maligned Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades — and their historic relationship to Western civilization from your own investigation, you may skip this article. But

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Religion as the Opiate of the People? by Miguel A. Faria, MD

1 Comment / Articles, Religion and History / By Helen

Recently, as if on cue, I have noticed liberal jabs at religion of a peculiar nature. It is as if, from the coldness of his tomb, Karl Marx (photo, below) was inciting these little jabs by his latter day disciples to prop up yet another aspect of his failing communist (socialist) philosophy, a philosophy that

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Spying from the belly of the beast in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

A Relevant and Brief History of Islam

Martin Luther, the Sale of Indulgences, and the Reformation

Philosophic Ramblings (Part II): Religion and Politics

On the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades

Religion as the Opiate of the People? by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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