Saturday, July 24, 2010

Yes Men.

Vigilance

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with power becomes … the necessary enemy of the people." – Wendell Phillips, speech in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1852.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Heresiarch

A heresiarch (also hæresiarch, according to the Oxford English Dictionary; from the Greek: αἱρεσιάρχης, hairesiárkhēs, literally "heresy chief") is a founder or leader of a heretical doctrine or movement, as considered by those who claim to maintain an orthodox religious tradition or doctrine.

The first official heresy of the Christian church, Arianism, was created by heresiarch Arius. It taught that Jesus was of lesser substance than God, and was rebuked by Constantine's First Ecumenical Council of Nicea, which asserted that Jesus and God the Father were "cosubstantial", i.e. of the same divine substance.

Heresy is a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma.[1] It is distinct from apostasy, which is the formal denunciation of one's religion, principles or cause,[2] and blasphemy, which is irreverence toward religion.[3] The founder or leader of a heretical movement is called a heresiarch, while individuals who espouse heresy are known as heretics. Heresiology is the study of heresy.

The word "heresy" comes from the Greek hairetikos:
"able to choose"...

Friday, July 9, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

Animal Sacrifice

Wandle Mace, 1809-1890

Autobiography (1809-1846)
Journal of Wandle Mace, typescript, HBLL
Autobiography of Wandle Mace
(As told to his wife, Rebecca E. Howell Mace)

Chapter 6 Paragraph 11:

"Joseph told them to go to Kirtland and cleanse and purify a certain room in the temple, that they must kill a lamb and offer a sacrifice unto the Lord which should prepare them to ordain Willard Richard a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles."

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010