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Posted on October 27, 2008 - Filed Under

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Marilynne Robinson in an interview in The Paris Review
INTERVIEWER
You’ve also written that Americans tend to avoid contemplating larger issues. What is it that we’re afraid of?
ROBINSON
People are frightened of themselves. It’s like Freud saying that the best thing is to have no sensation at all, as if we’re supposed to live painlessly and unconsciously in [...]

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I am? I said…to no one there?

Posted on October 15, 2008 - Filed Under

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You can’t sue God if you can’t serve the papers on him, a Douglas County District Court judge has ruled in Omaha.

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Paper, Rock, Schisms

Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under

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James Wood, reviewing Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation in The New Republic:
the jauntily unphilosophical way in which most popular atheistic writing simply ignores the Wittgensteinian dilemmas is disappointing, and explains why its explanations of the sources of religious belief are so jejune. Is there not a kind of insult to language in so [...]

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Lorem Ipsum Christ-em

Posted on June 16, 2006 - Filed Under

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It looks like the big wheels are turning to reword some prayers, chants and such for US Catholic masses. For example, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you” becomes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof”, to which The Almighty responds, “Do you wanna take this outside?”. Whatever, it’s [...]

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Shoot Me Now

Posted on December 20, 2005 - Filed Under

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I just got back from Sanjuro, and turned on the television to be greeted by Barbara Walters asking “Could heaven be a myth? …made up to give our lives meaning?” Should have stayed for the second half of the double feature. I now hear them playing Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven, followed immediately by Mariah [...]

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Guardian of Bad Religion

Posted on December 6, 2005 - Filed Under

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After seeing links from Laila Lalami and Bookslut to Polly Toynbee’s Guardian “review” of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I thought I’d check it out - mostly because of Lalami’s remarks that it would be enough to keep her away from a movie she may have otherwise seen. The article is in [...]

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