I enjoyed learning about such figures as Erasmus, Luther, the Medici's, and Thomas More. Thomas Cahill's irreverent take on these various figures made for an entertaining read. However, his political rantings knocked a few stars off of the book. I will read his other works (now forewarned of his ...
Review: Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization, The Gifts of the Jews, Sailing the Wine Dark Sea, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Heretics and HeroestThe Hinges of History is a series including the above books plus Mysteries of the Middle Ages and a volume yet to be published. I am t...
". . . the Bible is full of literature's two great themes, love and death (as well as its exciting caricatures, sex and violence) . . . " (7).I thought this insight that sex and violence are caricatures of the great themes of love and death was really interesting!"The sky shows itself as it reall...
Most of us are so weary of fraudulent religious phenomena—the fake saints molesting altar boys in the sacristy, the preaching scoundrels, the rip-off charities, the feel-good evangelists who promise us both God and money—that we may have come to view all religious movements, perhaps especially Ch...
