{"id":30620,"date":"2011-08-16T05:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=30620"},"modified":"2017-03-04T04:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T04:39:16","slug":"american-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/08\/16\/american-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"American Zombies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Over at First Things<\/a> Ethan Cordray writes: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\nBut what if this [Zombie] fascination is about more than just gross-out gore and action thrills? What if it represents a subtle, subconscious understanding that something is wrong\u2014spiritually wrong\u2014with our culture.<\/p>\n

Zombies represent the appetite divorced from everything else. They are incapable of judgment, self-awareness, or self-preservation. Though they still move and act, they are not really alive. They hunger and are never filled. And they aren\u2019t just hungry for anything\u2014they specifically want to eat the living, and even more specifically the brain, seat of rationality and self control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related Zombie stuff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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