If you’ve ever wondered why so many medieval manuscripts have drawings of knights fighting snails. Vox, “Why knights fought snails in medieval art“, YouTube (Mar. 29, 2017). I won’t give it away. And the comments are as good as the video. Here’s a sample: “The answer is simple, in medieval times giant snails were a real…
Think About Culture Changes
Let’s take some time to think about how culture changes over time. Justin King talks a bit here toward the beginning about White American Southerners who tried to save their culture by moving to Brazil. It didn’t work. They assimilated. And that’s exactly what happens to people in the European diaspora. Our ancestors might have…
CE and BCE
I use CE and BCE rather than AD and BC. Surprisingly, that causes some people pain. They seem to have the idea it’s somehow an assault on Christianity. I don’t have time to argue. I roll my eyes and move on. I first encountered CE and BCE as an undergraduate in the 1970s. I didn’t…
Genealogy Requires Actual Research Skills
I like this article by James Tanner. Actually, I like most articles by James Tanner, but this one in particular. In a nutshell, “I am not denigrating genealogy in any way, I just think that the subject of doing genealogical research needs to be upgraded from a pastime to a serious pursuit on the same level…
Christian Identity
The Christian Identity movement has its roots in British Israelism. Amazing. So does Herbert Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God. And so do some of the ersatz genealogies connecting medieval Europe to the Bible. “The history of the Christian Identity movement reveals its startling foundations — which posit that both Christians and Jews are God’s chosen…