A Time of Prayer
Maybe I am hearing things. After all, schizoaffective disorder has made its appearance in the family tree. The post A Time of Prayer appeared first on disinformation.
View ArticleChristianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part One)
Roman authors such as Celsus, Porphyry, Julian, and Lucian of Samosata argued that Christianity is a farce and a fraud. In fact, many of their insights into the new cult, which anticipated... The post...
View ArticleChristianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part Two)
Jesus and Paul were false prophets Radical apocalypticism was the foundation of the earliest form of Christian-ity. Jesus imagined the kingdom to be coming soon—very soon—in the very generation that...
View ArticleJesus vs. Jesus
The early morning has played out dead. Not one ride. And the worry about the coffee stain has been supplanted with worry over my career. The post Jesus vs. Jesus appeared first on disinformation.
View ArticleChristianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part Five)
he ancient world was a world in submission, the masses to the ruling class, youths to adults, women to men, soldiers to their commanders, slaves to their masters, and households to the whims and...
View ArticleChristianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part Six)
“Pick up your cot and walk”—Christianity is basically magic. The gospel of Mark, widely regarded as the earliest of the gospels, records this remarkable account of a miraculous healing: And when......
View ArticleSirius Martyr
Tuesday 5:15am: Crooks, the disgraced ex-cab driver who lost his A-card after getting busted committing Paratransit fraud by keeping passenger’s cards and later swiping fake rides – who has since been...
View ArticleCabbie Guilt
I’ve been having some weird sepia-tone dreams this past week. They’ve all involved escaping from one or some other long, drawn-out, violent and bloody urban drama. I don’t know if it’s the... The post...
View ArticleSelf-Driving “Rideshares”???
Thursday It’s my first day back in the cab from a couple days off camping down in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was just me and my younger son, as his older... The post Self-Driving “Rideshares”???...
View ArticleIn the Dark of Morn…
3:15am: “BbbBllllOOOOooPPp… BbbBllllOOOOooPPp… BbbBlllOOOooPPp…” My generic iPhone alarm goes off, waking me for the 3:45 medallion I am now rocking, and my “day” shift in Citizen’s Cab 26. This means...
View ArticleIrene & NOT Me
Citizen’s Cab 1015 is driving me aimless across a ghostly quiet San Francisco predawn. There’s a nowadays rare fog (thanks, global warming) blanketing the Marina district down here. And KCSM 91.1FM –...
View ArticleEaster is an Empty Ritual, Just Like the Fights at Berkeley
Easter: a day normally celebrated by the recollection of Christian myth, the painting of eggs, and the wide scale eating of pork in clear defiance of Judaic law. The post Easter is an Empty Ritual,...
View ArticleThere’s No Place Like Home
Good Friday It’s been kind of a mind fuck driving a taxi around one of the richest cities in the country, San Francisco, these past seven years. Introspecting in the early morning,... The post There’s...
View ArticleWas Jesus a Buddhist with Super Powers?
What did happen during all those missing years in the life of Mr. Christ? I have no idea, but if I were to ever get a pitch meeting with a major studio,... The post Was Jesus a Buddhist with Super...
View ArticleNo Horns Were Honked
“There are no laws in this town, anymore. There is only what you can get away with.” – Alex SacK That’s what I tell my passengers when invariably making that illegal U... The post No Horns Were Honked...
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