Archive for December, 2008

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Engineering an Empire: The Byzantine Empire–III

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The third video taken from a documentary on the Byzantine Empire broadcast on the History Channel. ... More

Engineering an Empire: The Byzantine Empire–II

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

The second video taken from a documentary broadcast on the History Channel. ... More

Engineering an Empire: The Byzantine Empire

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

The first video taken from a documentary on Byzantine history broadcast on the History Channel. ... More

Secularism in contemporary America–II

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

We have seen in the previous post what was the characteristic of American secularism: the combination of Enlightenment philosophy that saw in the rational world the answer to human problems, as well as tolerance towards the various Christian creeds that made up the colonies. Christianity had been ... More

Secularism in contemporary America–I

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I recently attended a lecture hosted by the Secular Coalition of America, whose topic proposed to explore the spread of religiosity in American politics. As could be expected from the very name of the group, the discussion turned into a denounciation of the mixing of faith and politics, of church ... More

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