Many people, and almost all religious worldviews, do not respond well to randomness. This is because the certitude with which they promote themselves/their theologies (“we/our god/the great spirit of the cosmos has all the answers and is in control, don’t you worry”) erodes in the face...
Except I am not a religious bigot, as far as I know. My faith is not founded on “I’m right, and you are wrong”. Not terrified of different. Not uncomfortable, even, in the presence of different. I want to offer you something if your experiences have taught you that that is how...
Hank: What do you mean? I AM a basketball! Doubly funny, considering that a self-deprecating sense of humor is normally one of the last things that one would associate with Goldberg. While they (to my knowledge) never explicitly said "I am the State",Those Wacky Nazisspent much of their...
So, every time I am alone because nobody wants to be close to me…I counted on my family because if everyone has rejected me, at least the family should have done something to show that they do not believe what was said. They were however the ones who were doing the worst. They ...
I am sometimes asked whether my parents objected this “Christianisation” of their wee boy, and the answer is “No – they didn’t even think of objecting”. Hinduism is a very syncretic religion anyway, and my parents weren’t, as I said, themselves religious: they saw nothing to ...
Despite the sisters’ secrecy, the story of their defiance is spreading like wildfire, spearheaded by a growing anti-Earth religious movement calling for revolution. Faced with staying silent or speaking up, the Order of Saint Rita must decide the role they will play—and what hand they will ...
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Big Machaine, by Victor LaValle: For such a seemingly juicy plot, this was a bit of a slog to get through. There’s a supernatural element that seemed superfluous to the better parts of the book – the story of Ricky Rice, growing up in a strange religious cult, becoming a heroin add...
as either the best or the only true way, as almost irreligious arrogance. Yet my work and life are fully concerned with religion, and the mystery of being is my supreme fascination, though, as a shameless mystic, I am more interested in religion as feeling and experience that as conception...
(translation: frumpy—god forbid you actually look like a mum) and the fetishisation of MILFs, versus the sickly sweetness of Mother’s Day, or the various prescriptive cultural and religious tropes to wrestle with. I think sometimes that feminism has failed mothers; failed to reclaim and ...