Religion Dispatches
For the past half-decade, Scientology has responded to withering attacks with a variety of aggressive and secretive tactics, drawing comparisons to the CIA and FBI. After a recent report alleging the use of violence, however, the church has responded by hiring an ‘independent’ panel of editors and journalists to produce a 20-page assessment of the report.
Read MoreA new book illuminates the making of scientific frauds.
Read MoreTheologian did not endorse bipartisanship.
Read MoreExplaining the Beck strategy.
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We can rest easy, knowing that our government wants us to be safe from forced implantation of microchips. But it’s not about civil liberties, it’s about dispensational paranoia and fear of the “Mark of the Beast.”
Read MorePushback against Beck’s social justice comments only fuel Beck.
Read MoreWhether Dobson was forced out or not, a “new face” has been in the cards.
Read MoreShe didn’t need to go to Mecca to learn about Islam.
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In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
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Avatar had audiences rooting for nature, against the destruction of marauding tanks—but the Oscar went to the film that offered a soldier’s-eye view.
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