Category Archives: heresy

LOSING MY RELIGION by Peter Nolan Smith

May 28, 2013 – 6:52 pm

A week before Christmas of 1967 I received my midterm report card from Our Lord’s Health High School. Bruder Karl had been gracious enough to pass me with a D+ in German, but Brother Valentine failed me in religion. The accompanying letter stated that my scholarship had been revoked for the remainder of my sophomore [...]

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The Outrage of Christ

March 30, 2013 – 4:15 pm

THE LAST TEMPTATION by Nikos Kazantzakis was a revelation for a young boy living on the South Shore of Boston in the early 60s. I found the book in our town library next to his successful novel ZORBA THE GREEK. Reading the blurb on the dust cover I was shocked to discover that Kazantzakis had [...]

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Godly Good Looks In the 2nd Person

March 27, 2013 – 3:06 pm

The ex-model from Paris has announced the following; “It is written in the book of ISIAH that Jesus would have no physical attributes that would be physically attractive to others. Jesus did not have long hair and look effeminate, He was a carpenter, strong physically and probably what we would term as ‘ugly’.” Next she’ll [...]

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From Here To Timbucktu

July 11, 2012 – 2:38 am
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15 Minutes For A Nobody

May 25, 2012 – 10:49 am

In 1968 Warhol wrote that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” for a catalogue of his work in Sweden. Eleven years later Warhol crowed the triumph of his prediction by saying, “My prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” The statement [...]

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