TOILETS I HAVE MET             It all began with my Great Aunt Clara’s outhouse in the countryside. I do not have any special memories of the house, but I have pictures of its flowery beauty. The outhouse was located just outside of the large farmhouse and we often visited there, and it, when I was…

WHAT ABOUT SAINT PAUL?      For all of my criticisms of Paul of Tarsus I must in the end admit that he was a, if not the, key pivot point in the origin of the Christian Religion. On the one hand, I think he invented the whole “sacrificial atonement” business and manipulated several other unfortunate…