humanism Archive

  • The Good Book

    I love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I love it. It doesn’t happen often enough, but when we returned home from a recent trip out of town, there was a lovely hardback book […]

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  • Sassetta: St Antony beaten by the devils

    Scapegoats

    "Don't blame it all on the devil" seems a reasonable enough point for mature minds. Maybe too obvious a point? It's tempting to take all of this at face value and assume that Defoe's meaning is simple, but I'd like to suggest something further ...

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