Tag: philosophy
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Dionysus and the Crucified
by Justin Marquis A Nietzsche scholar in seminary, a Christian writing a blog invoking the pagan God of wine; what exactly is going on? Nietzsche himself proposed a dynamic and even violent opposition, expressed as Dionysus versus the Crucified, between the God of wine and Christianity. Dionysus the god of subterranean, sometimes violent urges, the…
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Work is not the Answer
by Justin Marquis I reject the dichotomy between work and play. If an activity is intrinsically worthwhile to do while being paid, then it is intrinsically worthwhile to do without pay. Literally the only difference between work and play in late capitalism is that one is paid and the other is unpaid. This comes up…
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The Death of God and the Open Sea
The morning of September 11, 2001 when planes were flown into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, Psalm 20 was on my lips “Some trust in chariots…, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” I was in the process of pulling away from the Evangelical church, but the last straw was…
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Isolating Church, Liberating Education – The Early College Years
by Justin Marquis Previous Post – My So-Called Faith The beginning of my studies at Purdue University was a time of intensifying my commitment to my Evangelical Christian faith. My high school part-time job had been working at the public library, first as a page and then as a clerk. A lot of my high…
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It’s all just Matter and Energy Arranged in Various Ways
I am a strict “it’s all just matter and energy arranged in various ways” kind of materialist, not the vulgar reductionist kind that skips the “various ways” part of the equation, but completely unwilling to countenance the existence of a separate transcendent plane of being that influences, interacts with, directs, or gives meaning to our…
Dionysus on a Bike 