The following is a list of all material written in English on this blog, sorted by year and in reverse chronological order. The list is small for now, but I’m confident it’ll grow with time. It goes without saying that in exclusively English articles your comments should only be in English (in mixed language articles, feel free to express yourselves in either language).
Given the fact that there have been plenty of analyses of the Wager in general, I’ll focus mainly on Pascal’s text itself. Though I do mention the traditional objections at the end, you can easily find more detailed analyses in that respect on the web.
This article is an extra resource for the article “The “Holy Light” of Jerusalem debunked”. This post introduces a new series of articles on the Biblical Apocrypha and Psedepigrapha. The table of contents can be found here and the reasons I decided to write about them can be read in the post.
“The life of Adam and Eve” is a series of books written in various languages about the first couple of humans in Christian Mythology. By reading the texts it becomes readily apparent why they were never canonized, as their theology diverges significantly from the mainstream (even that of the first centuries) but there are several details that pop out as being part of Christian Mythology, even though they appear nowhere in the Bible.
This article is an extra resource for the article “The “Holy Light” of Jerusalem debunked”. I did a little research and here I present the prayer in its entirety (and not just the juicy parts) as it appears on the website of the Jerusalem Patriarchate in Greek and translated by them in English along with my own translation in English.
The 91-year-old Marìa Panagoùlia speaks her mind on the subject of death and the afterlife. It’s really impressive and, to be honest, quite moving. It takes guts and lots of clarity of spirit to say things like that at the age of 91.
A nice video clip I stole from TooManyTribbles. I present it because it is directly related to the essay “Ghost in the Machine” by Ebonmuse and specifically the subsection about “Callosal Disconnection”.
An article written by Associate Professor Victor Roudometof of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. The article, entitled “Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Uses of the Past in Contemporary Greece”, was published in the “Religions” Journal (2011, vol.2) on May 11th, 2011.
Bogus and exposed miracles from our Greek-Orthodox side of the fence. The first installment: St. Fanourios bleeds sour cherry juice
I had always been interested in making a diagram portraying how Christianity evolved and splintered into a thousand pieces, but never got around to making one due to the daunting size of the project. A couple of months ago unemployment gave me the opportunity to start and complete it, initially in Greek. Now I’ve translated it in English as well!
Before I admitted even to myself that I was an atheist, while I was still struggling with my faith, I was always troubled by the very first chapter of the Bible; God creating the World. Does this even make sense? Why would a God want to create a material World?
What really happens every Good Saturday in Jerusalem cannot be the object of rigourous scientific study under current circumstances. That which can be approached critically is the phenomenon’s theological foundation and its (little known to the faithful) history.
This testimony of Paul is quite famous. It has been used time and time again as proof of the presence of the Logos before the birth of Jesus and as proof of a prophetic anticipation of the ancient Greeks for the One and True God; the judeochristian Yahweh. But things aren’t quite as the apologists claim.
