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Merriam Webster has a Visual Dictionary thing that looks like it could end up being neat, though it's still a little sparse, yet, I found this diagramme interesting.

Note that Buddhism, Shinto and Confucianism all start at the same time, and that Hinduism pre-dates Moses. EDIT: Several of you have alerted me to the incorrectness of this ( Read more... )

War as Religious Human Sacrifice - Yahweh and Moloch were not always enemies. Cults subsume one another. This one's as bloody as the Aztecs were.

Dissociation and Control Experiments - I've seen these stories before - this is a bit more cogent than most. I don't have trouble believing what he speaks of could be happening - but there's not any ( Read more... )

Great link from xi_o_teas; whose username still makes me go, what is that and where did it come from, is it a word or a symbol and is it xenogenic or from a specific earthlevel culture or mythopoeia?

What Would Jesus Do, if Christians paid attention to reality ( Read more... )

This song was obviously more about the sort of 1970s Rajneeshy-sorta cultists but it can just as easily apply to annoying Christians. Like Jehovah's Witnesses, which this picture depicts. They look awfully happy about that apocalypse, don't they? I always wondered if they hire acidheads to illustrate their fucking Watchtower mags and suchlike ( Read more... )

(Particular attention to the following is called to Flickad (even though she's fortunate enough not to live in the States) for reasons she'll know immediately; ditto to any other uncompromisingly pro-choice women, particularly those who, unlike her, DO live here...especially if unlucky enough to be in South Dakota.)

A romance-novel review bloggista has ( Read more... )

WAR IN HEAVEN

It was stardust, it was golden...

I got caught in the Devil's bargain, but when the product turned out to be bunk, and the Devil was a narc, I called in the muscle, which is a funny thing to refer to a discorporate gang as, and watched them soundly trounce some holy ghost angelic ass. And then got to work on his narc.I don't like ( Read more... )

They seem to have trouble with gay rights in Iran, too. Now do you Bushie Fundementedalists STILL want a war with them so much ( Read more... )