Recent content by jacques levague

If you are a person of faith then you never had, or you have abandoned, an ability to distinguish things that are real from things that are not real. Reality is not what you hope it is. Sure, I have hope - that tomorrow might bring happiness, good health, prosperity, world peace, practical...

A joke from Jacques Levague's journal: The anthropologist's journal contains very few entries where he speaks calmly with religious proselytizers (rather than terrorize them). For example, he reports an encounter where he philosophically asked, Was there a God before language, before words were...

Be sure about the existence of the Champion of Reason

Who else had a problem with predation? As a ten-year-old, I was ok with God creating plants, and God creating animals to eat the plants, but creating animals to eat other animals with a nervous system - that tipped me into heresy. Jacques Levague

As a cultural Anthro (now retired) I came to know many traditionally oriented indigenous peoples who have had their epistemological systems challenged by (mostly) evangelical Christian proselytizers. But sometimes they did not completely destroy traditional beliefs. In the American southwest...