Strangers in a Hostile Land

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. - Leviticus 19:34 It is a core tenant in most belief systems, whether Jewish or Christian or Secular Humanist, that it … Continue reading Strangers in a Hostile Land

An Angry God in the Hands of the Sinners

It's telling that, in our fiction, our creations are constantly and continuously trying to kill us. Look at Frankenstein's monster, and see something that becomes driven mad by its creator's lack of love. All it wants, at the start, is to be accepted as what it is; a thinking living being. Instead, it's shunned by … Continue reading An Angry God in the Hands of the Sinners