Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
At the end of a hard day's work, I like to unwind with whatever TV show I can find. I tend to like supernatural drama series, but not really shitty high school drama ones. The latest series that has caught my attention is CW's "The Messengers" - which is, basically, the Book of Revelations but on TV. As someone who understands the Apocalypse Story as a vindictive minority group's wish-fulfillment future where all their enemies get ...
I swear not 3 months goes by before I see the movie trailer for a new cinematographic take on the "Demonic Possession" genre. The newest in this long, long chain of movies (all of which are eaten up by the faithful as pop culture affirmations of religious experiences, based on TRUE STORIES of demonic possession and exorcism), is "The Possession: Darkness Lives Inside." The tagline: "Fear the Demon that Doesn't Fear God." Proof that Demonic Possession is ...
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