A Novelist’s Narration
From the agony of Job and the psalmists in the Bible, to the protest of the searching agnostic nowadays, we do all seem to want a more visible, more extravagant, less modern God.
Tag Archives: Nietzsche
Dinner Party Grace
In one of my last articles, I mentioned ‘the three things’ one should never bring up at a dinner party: sex, religion, and politics. Sex was on the menu last […]
Freud’s God
God is a projection of the human father. As Sigmund Freud explains, God does not exist because he is just our conceptual longing for a heavenly father. He is an […]
“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you”
“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you.”[1] Freud paraphrases Jesus’ famous words with his own, rather peppery, twist. Jesus taught that my love for others should be as boundless as my love […]
Does Art Speak?
Is a postscript to Lolita, a defensive Vladimir Nabokov responds to criticisms leveled at his novel about a man who seduces a 12-year-old girl. He distinguishes his novel from pornographic literature. He […]
Freud and the Love Delusion
This is one thing that believers and skeptics should be able to agree upon: the story of Jesus is nonsense.
“Is This Real Life?”
At the moment, over 70 million viewers have tuned in to YouTube to watch the wacky antics of a kid named David who has just left the dentist. Aside from […]
Wondering Fair 