My thesis is about revolution, even (and/or especially) when it's revolution against God (as in Milton's Paradise Lost.) So I was interested in Xmen Apocalypse, because it deals very specifically with themes I've written about before. Specifically, if God comes to end the world, as he's promised to in Revelations, and ...
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Rick Perry is the AntiChrist: The Truth about Christian Politics
Rick Perry's political agenda summed up in 30 seconds: no gays in the military, open celebration of Christmas and prayer in schools, end Obama's "War on Religion" and restore America's "Religious Heritage". Shucks, that sounds pretty awesome for Christians. But wait! Good Christians believe we are in the end of times, ...
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Johnny Depp’s blasphemous new Christmas Carol with BabyBird: Jesus Stag Night Club
There are many reasons to love Johnny Depp; his stunning good looks, goofy movie roles or charming bad boy personality. But here's another one: for his outspoken willingness to criticize religion and poke fun in places others dare not tread. Teaming up with the UK band BabyBird (which he's worked with ...
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The Lie of Satanism: Why Satanists Don’t Exist but Everyone is Afraid of them Anyway
This post is prompted by TWO Yahoo articles concerning Satanism posted within one week of each other. The first, titled "Women Slash Teen 300 Times During Satanic Sex Ritual" (source) is about two Milwaukee roommates accused of slashing and stabbing a teenager 300 times in an apparent satanic sex ritual that ...
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Obama, the Antichrist and the 2nd Coming of Jesus: White House Shooter Ortega-Hernandez
This week a student at Idaho State University, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, took some shots at the White House, apparently in an attempt to assassinate Obama, whom he saw as the AntiChrist. Soon after, the bizarre video he'd made as a statement of his philosophy and desperate plea to get on ...
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Branding and marketing in religious illustration
Branding and marketing has become hugely important in today's and competitive business environment. Companies have to find a way to stick in people's minds, to generate an emotional response, to build trust and rapport. A name and a slogan just isn't enough. Take a look at the following: just a ...
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Which came first, Satan, Michael or Garuda? Christian and Hindu Religious Art
Prepare to be amazed. Today I've been looking for pictures of Satan, and pictures of Garuda, for two separate art projects. What I'd never before realized, however, is that medieval depictions of The Devil are basically direct copies of much earlier (I presume) pictures of Garuda - the hindu flying ...
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The Truth about Global Warming, and why it doesn’t matter.
This week a study of the world's surface temperatures led Richard Muller - a long time, conservative skeptic scientists partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers - finally got him to change his mind. It's big news because he was a champion of those who say "There ...
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King Solomon’s Temple was Built by Satan! (Who built the other megaliths?)
I learned a bunch of incredible things today that I bet you didn't know: one bit of trivia is that King Solomon's favorite temple was built by special demon technology, which Solomon controlled with a magic ring. The story starts with a spirit or Jinni (where we get the word "Genie"). ...
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Preparing for my first Ayahuasca experience: Moses, Parmenides and Aliens
Ayahuasca is a Peruvian vine that has traditionally been used to send visionaries into "the world beyond" for shamanic and spiritual rituals. Although I was in Peru this summer, I didn't have the opportunity to join a ceremony. Imagine my surprise when I returned to my semi-permanent home in Taiwan ...
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Are fairies and aliens real? Using psychotropic plants to contact supernatural entities
Yesterday I read Graham Hancock's Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind (2007). Basically, without coming to any conclusion or positing any credible theory, the purpose of the book is to point out some pretty astounding similarities between ancient pre-historic cave drawings, traditional accounts of fairy lore, modern scientific experiments with ...
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