Author: R. A. McGough

Did early Christians knowingly design the Bible Wheel?

A reader left this comment yesterday, touching upon my question Who Designed the Bible Wheel?: Richard, After doing a Google search this evening, on another idea, I came across your Bible Wheel site and this post of yours. This is

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Explaining myself …

I received this comment in response to my post Why I quit Christianity. Tony brought up a number of important questions so I thought it best to repeat our exchange here where more folks can read it: Hi Richard, I

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A Critique of the Bible Wheel Book – by the Author! Part 2

The first part of this series may be found here. Part I, Chapter 2 of the Bible Wheel book is available in html format for viewing in your browser here. Critique of Part I, Chapter 2 of the Bible Wheel

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A Critique of the Bible Wheel Book – by the Author! Part 1

Why would I want to critique my own book? The answer is quite simple. As explained in my last post, Why I quit Christianity, I have recently completed the huge transition from being a “born-again Bible-believing Christian” to being an

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Why I quit Christianity

Update: Comments on this thread are now closed because there are too many. I have reposted the article here. Comments in the new thread are welcome. Since I began this website back in 2001, and during most of the decade

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2011 Rainbow Gathering in Washington State

The Rainbow Gathering was absolutely wonderful. I spent six days with 20,000 happy hippies in one of the most beautiful natural settings imaginable. It rained a lot up till the day I arrived (June 30) and then was sunny and

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Heading out for the Rainbow Gathering

The Rainbow Gathering is in my home state of Washington this year. Up high in the deep green pine forests on the “wet side” of the Cascade mountains. It should be about as good as it gets. I’ll be away

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The Bible Wheel as a Cosmic Mandala of Archetypal Wholeness

“The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate

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Who Designed the Bible Wheel?

When I first discovered the Bible Wheel in 1995, I soon became convinced that it was designed by “God.” My conception of God at that time was pretty much in line with with the “Guy-in-the-sky” style God of traditional Christian

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Christians Praise Harold Camping for doing “God’s Work”

There’s a lot of praise over on FiveDoves.com for the “great work” that Harold Camping did for the Lord by popularizing belief in the rapture and the end of the world. Here are some samples. I begin with this post

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