Books by R. Blade
Conversational Books
The atheist declares that God the creator is a myth because of the known scientific evidence of how the universe was formed and how life evolved on Earth. The Godiac declares that as described in the Bible God is the creator of all there is. Life is bioelectric and if God created life, he's the original and greatest of all electric generators.
© 2008Note: The below referenced books contain fictional conversations with reconstituted famous historical persons.
Caravaggio was the innovative painter (1571-1610) art historians call a genius. He painted the divine and saints as ordinary humans. He swaggered in the mean streets of Rome with sword and dagger ready for a fight. He killed a man in a sword fight and fled from Rome. In Malta the pope permitted him to take vows to become a Knight of Malta to atone for his sin of murder. On his way to Rome to accept a papal pardon he mysteriously vanished. His body was never found; his remains have never been discovered.
An atheistic modern American host and Muhammad discuss his extraordinary life. Muhammad was the prophet and apostle of Islam, a religion for good and evil. He used the fatwa to kill personal enemies and Jihad to make war against infidels. He converted Arabia from paganism to Islam, a religion combining politics and the worship of Allah.
A Quaker from Rhode Island becomes an American Revolutionary War hero second only to Washington, who called him his favorite general. Commanding the Southern Army Greene directed the most successful campaign of the war by liberating the South from British occupation. He forced the British north to Yorktown, Virginia where they surrendered to Washington to end the war.
Disputation with Thomas Aquinas ©2005
A disputation between an atheistic modern American host and the saintly Dominican priest Thomas Aquinas. He was Catholicism's most prolific theologian and influential philosopher. Some of his writings became canon law of the church. In 1323 he was pronounced a saint.
Constantine was the Supreme Emperor of the vast Roman Empire. He looted the treasuries of Roman provinces and used the money to build Christian churches and enrich the papacy. At the end of his life he converted from paganism to Christianism and established it as the Roman Empire’s state religion. He was the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire and should be considered the 13th apostle.
Dialogs with Giordano Bruno ©2002
Bruno was a famous Renaissance maverick, a fugitive Dominican priest, philosopher, prolific writer, traveler, and martyr. The papacy argued that the Sun orbited the Earth. Bruno agreed with Copernicus and Galileo that the Earth orbited the Sun. The brutal Pope Clement 8 accused Bruno of heresy and in holocaust burned him to death.
The nobleman Oxford was the famous Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, the pseudonymous author of the poems and plays attributed to Shakespeare the rustic from Stratford-on-Avon. He was of Tudor nobility, a maverick earl, irreverent courtier, jousting champion, lover of Queen Elizabeth I, adulterer, and probably bisexual. He was a soldier, sailor, sophisticated traveler, patron of actors, theater, and writers,
Poetry Books
A great variety of unusual poems metrically versed covering a broad spectrum of subjects.
In My Solitaries ©1999
Scrolling with Razor © 1997
Bread and Circuses ©1995For quick selection of an individual poem, the titles and subjects of all poems in the above referenced books are listed alphabetically in an index. Click below on
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