Thursday, August 21, 2008

Treasure hunt for books

Getting a copy of Balmer's new book, mentioned yesterday, has turned into a treasure hunt.

One vendor after another is sold out. So, on to the next vendor.

Also ordered these:

"Scandal of Evangelical Politics, The: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World?" by Ronald Sider

"Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America" by Balmer

"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America" by Chris Hedges


That should give me plenty of material to think about.

I'm not anti-religion, I am just not in favor of politics masquerading as religion, or vice versa. I don't personally think that a person's religious views or his adherence to a particular set of beliefs gives much insight into personal behavior.

Changing the subject, yet again, this is an enlightening article from Intellectual Conservative:

"Clear Thinking" Counterfeit Conservatives

The author, Sartre, gives probably one of the best dissections of the Neoconservative value and belief system I have seen. I'm not an intellectual conservative by any means and the website the article was posted on annoys me no end, but this is a good article just the same.
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A hobby cook from the Midwest. Experiments, thoughts, new recipes, maybe even a photo or two... You noticed the pouting little girl with the words superimposed over her face? Growing up in the 60s and 70s the refrain of "there are starving children in [insert current poverty-stricken nation] that would love to have such... etc etc etc." I don't know that anyone actually believed all that but the image of a starving foreign child, holding out a bowl in hopes of being gifted with boiled tongue or green tomato pie, was pretty powerful. I do recall the kind of trouble kids would inevitably be in if they dared to say what most of us thought: "Well, then, send this stuff right on over to those poor, starving [insert country] kids." I don't usually post other people's photos, just my own. If you want to borrow or use one of my photos, I would appreciate your asking first. I usually don't mind but do hate having my work attributed to someone else. By the way, I found the photo of that pouting girl on the web with no attribution. If it's yours? We'll deal, ok? Thanks.
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