Martyrdom Series

You don't promote enlightenment by inciting pain. You merely increase the level of suffering in another person's life until she gives in.

In the original myth, Christ didn't die so that we might emulate his suffering: he suffered because we suffered.

It was not for beauty that the early church fathers banned the damaged from celebrating the Mass; the prelates were more concerned about the barbarous lengths to which some interpreted scripture and pagan rites in which initiates altered themselves.

I refused to take the side of any government, any army in a war.

To thwart them, we must tell the whole truth. Sixteen million people died in the Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and "defectives".

Generals such as Patton like to think that they are the high priests of vast congregations called "armies", but from what I have heard and read from grunts the spiritual community is more akin to that of Quakers than to the Vatican or Shinto.

The man or woman who lies down upon the altar is called a victim, from the Latin victima meaning an animal used for sacrifice. The word comes from an Indo-European root "weik" signifying that which is magic and holy.

Which were the martyrs of York? The ones who killed themselves or the ones who were massacred by the crowd?