Tag: religion
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The Enemy of The Extremist Is The Moderate
“When everybody’s an extremist, then you can start really fighting.”
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How Christian Monks Saved Beowulf
“This point cannot be stressed enough: the pagans did not write things down.”
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Fight Club as a Buddhist Metaphor
“Tyler kills his ego which was blinding him to the truth which was right in front of him all along. ”
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Why Catholicism Is Neither Progressive, Conservative, Liberal or Marxist
“It towers over you–the standing, living pillar of a dead empire. It will not fit in your box.”
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Why The Great Old Ones Make You Lose Your Sanity
“This hateful, hungry god of a creature is between being a glimpse of a writhing horror, and a horror that watches unseen.”
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An Ex-Mormon on Cutting and Self-Abuse
“The flowing blood was a testament to me, it meant I could overcome my struggles with pain.”
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Stumbling Into the Moonies in Australia
“DON’T WORK ON SATURDAYS! DON’T CALL SUNDAY SUNDAY! DON’T DRINK, DRUGS, OR HAVE PREMARITAL SEX!”
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Stay in the Popemobile
“You can’t start talking like this and not piss off some crazy powerful people.”
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Christian Persecution and Fundamentalist Theology
“There’s a very good historical reason that large numbers of North American Christians feel “persecuted”: persecution is a central feature of fundamentalist theology, and fundamentalism has become extremely influential through its rebellious child named neo-evangelicalism (what most Americans these days just call evangelicalism). Fundamentalism began as a reaction against the mainstream and prides itself on […]
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On Outing (2)
“Bollocks. It removes the political power they are using to destroy the lives of others. You think that it’s embarrassing for him? I see the surviving partner denied pension rights in a same sex partnership, or indeed the denial of hospital visitation rights before death. I see states that allow for homosexuals to be sacked […]