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Church of Science-Fiction
I found this review of Hugh Urban’s The Church of Scientology to be very interesting. Urban seems to be a qualified analyst of minority religions and esoteric traditions, with previous works on Tantra and American esoteric traditions in India and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cults
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Goodbye, Anne McCaffrery
Anne McCaffrey, the science fiction author, died yesterday at the age of 85. From io9: Anne McCaffrey wasn’t just the inventor of Pern, the world where a whole society is based on dragon-riding. She was also an incredibly influential author … Continue reading
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America’s Twilight Belt
This image, created by Gallup Polls, shows which states in the US were the most religious in 2008. The results come from a poll where participants were asked if religion was an important part of their everyday life. You can … Continue reading
Posted in Books
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O’Reilly Flunks History
I don’t follow Bill O’Reilly, so I don’t know what possessed him to write a history of the Lincoln assassination. I could have predicted that it would be bad. Making a real contribution to the scholarship on a topic that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History
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Rand is Spinning in Her Grave
The production company for the movie Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 has announced that they will replace 100,000 copies of the title sheet that was included in the DVD and Blu-Ray edition of the movie. Apparently there was a mistake in … Continue reading
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Fantasy and Myth
Our friend and new neighbor James McGrath is a devoted fan of science fiction. He has argued that science fiction stories are the myths for our age, since science fiction frequently explores some of the same territory as myth and … Continue reading
Posted in Books
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Christian Zombie Killer
I think this finally proves my contention that the zombie fad has peaked and will soon lurch off into the sunset: Via Amazon: “In this one-of-kind approach to teaching about sin, grace, and salvation, The Christian Zombie Killers Handbook tracks … Continue reading
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Let’s All Go Step on Pat Buchanan’s Lawn
Pat Buchanan is lamenting the facts that kids these days just aren’t as respectful of white Christian men as they use to be back in his day. His new book, Suicide Of A Superpower, seems to be a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Oh the Stupidity!
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Ken Ham is Shocked! … Shocked!
The latest book to start a buzz amongst the bloggers who focus on American Christianity is Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson’s new book, The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. It seems you can think of The Anointed as … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creationism / ID
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