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RAPE AND KILLING ARE CHIEF AMONG THE VICIOUS PLEASURES, A MAN'S recreations on the dark side. Medieval kings reserved for themselves alone the right to do such things, in peacetime anyway. In war, the privileges were distributed to the lowliest foot soldier: every man a king.
How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this...
Judaism has been a fertile breeding ground for scientists, many of whom have no difficulty squaring their work and their faith. In his 1990 book Genesis and the Big Bang, Israeli nuclear physicist Gerald L. Schroeder argues in detail that there is no contradiction between the Bible's account of...
.Public domain for all those medieval instruments of torture.
John Paul's introduction says the big book adapts infallible church teaching to illuminate "the new situations and problems which had not yet emerged in the past." Writers of the last such catechism 426 years ago could not have imagined some sins condemned in 1992: test-tube conception, artificial insemination...