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The Catholic Sex Problem, Ctd.

29-Jun-12

where can i buy Lyrica in australia I just finished The Body and Society, Peter Brown’s stupendously excellent book on early Christian views of the body.  The book is filled with interesting excerpts from the saints.  Here’s one of them: “The human ideal of continence, I mean that which is set forth by the Greek philosophers, teaches one to resist passion, so […]

Merrie Olde England.

06-May-12

http://preferredmode.com/tag/msc/ A nice interview about the ever-interesting 18th century.  The most remarkable thing to my eyes: We have very good data on births outside marriage and births within seven months of marriage, which is a pretty good indicator of people having had sex before marriage. These are aggregate statistics covering the whole [of England], and show […]

Bertrand Russell’s Atheist Essays.

14-Sep-11

There is a fine little collection of essays about atheism by Bertrand Russell, entitled Why I Am Not A Christian, which I read on subway rides about the city the past week.  It is light reading, and his mature essays are in a lucid style which offers no difficulties (some of his earlier essays, such […]