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Justice Antonin Scalia Believes In Hell And The Devil–But Not Gays And Atheists
At Salon, Jeffrey Taylor’s summary of Antonin Scalia’s interview with New York magazine caught me for a loop. The man is seriously superstitious, living in a demon haunted world: [Jennifer] Senior interviewed Scalia for her magazine. She asked for his … Continue reading
A New Documentary Tracks the Life of a Vatican Approved Exorcist
The documentary is titled, The Exorcist in the 21st Century, and was done by a Norwegian filmmaker. Here’s the trailer.
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Tagged atheism, Catholicism, demons, documentaries, documentary, exorcism, faith, film, God, Jesus
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Would “The Last Exorcism” Have Been Better Titled “The Last Atheist”?
I saw The Last Exorcism this past weekend and, yes, it’s really good. And scary. And it’s also a bit of an ancient Greek morality play, which makes it philosophically interesting as well: what if a good-hearted cynic, an unbeliever of the Marjoe or Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, Apollo and Dionysus, atheism, atheist, Bakkhai, cotton marcus, demon possession, demons, Euripides, exorcism, the last exorcism
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The Last Exorcism: The Blair Witch Project Meets Marjoe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
At Salon, Andrew O’Hehir describes the genre that the Blair Witch Project launched: Your horror movie’s going to look like raw documentary footage, full of mistakes and retakes and hinky camera angles and jagged non-edits. In fact, why not make … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, demons, exorcism, film, God, Jesus, marjoe, movie review, nathaniel hawthorne, the last exorcist, Young Goodman Brown
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UFOs, Aliens, and Religious Art
People who try to suggest that UFOs are in some way responsible, over the millenia, for the direction of human cultural and religious evolution, sometimes appeal to curious images such as this one as potential evidence: The above painting is titled “The … Continue reading
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Tagged alienist, aliens, art, Christianity, demons, Jesus, jesus and ufos, psychology, religion, skepticism
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Thinking about UFO Abductees with Harvard Psychologist John Mack
This is a segment from a documentary on Harvard pychologist John Mack and some of the UFO abductees that he has interviewed and worked with. I thought that this segment was especially interesting and informative: Hat tip: Atrueoriginall
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Tagged abduction, aliens, demons, grays, psychology, skeptic, space, ufo abductees, ufo abduction, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Weird Fact for the Day: Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (and Serious Rush Limbaugh Dittohead) WAS A COLLEGE EXORCIST!
So says TPM Online. Money quote: As others noted during his 2003 and 2007 gubernatorial campaigns (see update), in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story … Continue reading
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Tagged bobby jindal, college exorcist, demonology, demons, exorcism, faith healing, philosophy, Politics, religion, rush limbaugh
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