Buffy in the New York Times

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Yep, I'm a dork and I can't help taking notes on stuff that interests me. (I submit, as further evidence, Exhibit B: The Langoliers, based on a recent rereading of that Stephen King novella (Four Past Midnight was just sitting there in the laundry room, ripe for the borrowing!)

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Dude.

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I think a major part of my problem in that class was that the teacher started out with the assumption that we all had some (probably Judeo-Christian) definition of sin and redemption. I didn't. I was raised knowing that religion was something other people did, but not me and my family, and that mythology is awesome reading, but I never got into dogma past hearing an occasional sermon at a friend's brother's baptism or something like that. So I guess simple, basic definitions would be the place for me to start. I remember being really frustrated by the question "Is Reverend Dimmesdale redeemed for his sins?" because I didn't even really know what it meant. Sigh. Email would probably be a better venue for continuing this discussion, eh?