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The Long View: The Politics of Meaning

I don't think I can improve on this concluding paragraph. The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism By Michael Lerner Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996 $24.00, 355 pages ISBN: 0-201-47966-4 The '60s Left Tries God Remember back in 1993 when First

The Long View: The Great Disappointment of 1844

John maintained the HTML for his website by hand. I also starting making webpages in the late nineties, and that was just how you did it. As such, he had indexes by topic for his major interests, for example eschatology. I debated recreating these for a long time, but I

The Long View 2004-09-05: My Enthusiasms Prosper

John's enthusiasm for alternative history is arguably going better than spelling reform. The kind of perfectly pleasant people who have no interest in religion John mentions near the end make me thing of Kipling, who described himself as a Christian God-fearing atheist. My Enthusiasms Prosper Lingva Prismo is

Islam and the Jews Book Review

Islam and the Jews Book Review

Another book review that inadvertently disappeared during a site reorganization. Al-Azhar UniversityIslam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle by Mark A. Gabriel ISBN 9780884199564; $13.99 Mark Gabriel is not the author's original name. He has not chosen to reveal his original name, both because of possible repercussions

Religion in Science Fiction

John C. Wright wrote an interesting essay for SFSignal on religion in science fiction/fantasy works. I thought there was more substance to what he wrote than this thing I saw a few weeks back. I have read and enjoyed many of the books Wright referenced in his essay, so