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The day is nigh. On October 17, 2018, marijuana became legal in Canada.
Our Lord was probably a teenager when the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus impaled himself on his own sword in despair for having lost three legions in combat with Germanic tribesmen.
The recent pardon of the late world heavy weight champion Jack Johnson by our president was a gracious act long overdue.
I am not a Roman Catholic, and I did not write this book in defense of the Church. I wrote it in defense of history.
"One of my favorite testimonials as to the authenticity of the Shroud," says Barrie Schwortz, an expert on the Shroud of Turin, "actually came from my Jewish mother."
Of the 7.3 billion human beings on Planet Earth today, 89 percent are religious believers, while 1.8 percent are professed atheists.
"The use of Fashions in thought," writes C. S. Lewis' Uncle Screwtape, of evil memory, "is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers." A simple strategy, but eminently effective:
In this lecture, I will do essentially two things. The first is that I will say a few things about Browns novel. Then I will spend the majority of my time examining fundamental issues that he and others raise regarding the origins of Christianity.