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		<title>Therapy, Criticism, and Heresy&#8212;Which Is UU?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just finished up The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek, the so-called wildman of philosophy. And I keep going back to a passage on the very first page of the intro. In it, Zizek says that religion in our current day of global empire is limited to two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Good earth gnosticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gnosticism gets a lot of guff for seeing the material world as something to be escaped from. I think that&#8217;s a caricature of gnosticism. Sure, the Used Car Salesman who created the world set up a lemon of a universe, but that doesn&#8217;t mean gnosticism has to be anti-body and anti-earth. Even if many flavors [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Empire is dead, long live Empire</title>
		<link>http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/08/10/empire-is-dead-long-live-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The trouble with Empire is its persistence. Empire falls down now and again, but it always gets up. What&#8217;s worse, those who push it down usually help it get back up. If they&#8217;re lucky enough to kill Empire, they find themselves becoming its latest incarnation. Empire is dead, long live Empire. Anti-Empire means well, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The empire never ended</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finished up Philip K. Dick&#8217;s freaky book VALIS last night. It&#8217;s gnostic, and if there&#8217;s anything consistently true about Gnostic writing, it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s freaky. &#8220;Phildickian&#8221; gnosticism does not disappoint on that account. There&#8217;s the VALIS&#8212;the Vast Active Living Intelligence System&#8212;which controls the world and even creates it. There&#8217;s the Black Iron Prison, which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alternatives to empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a quick shout out to a cool blog: Alternative2Empire. (Mission statement. Values statement.)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is religion amoral?</title>
		<link>http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/07/02/is-religion-amoral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back to Sharon Welch in After Empire. An atheist, she writes: What, then, is the religious? This is the name we give to those encounters and energies that are constitutive but amoral, those encounters that are vivid, compelling, and meaningful, but fragile. (Page 30.) I&#8217;m still chewing on that.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Justice: Condemnation versus joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I picked up a copy of Sharon Welch&#8217;s After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace at GA, and I&#8217;m slowly working my way through it. From page five: What I know in my soul I learned from the lives of my mother and father: that it is possible to work for justice without [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Redneck liberation theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I promised Joe Bageant a while back that I&#8217;d have a shot at his post &#8220;Redneck Liberation Theology.&#8221; He was kind enough last week to send me a copy of his new book Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America&#8217;s Class War. I just finished it, and I&#8217;ll post more about it shortly. But for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A voice crying in the wilderness</title>
		<link>http://www.makingchutney.com/2006/02/19/a-voice-crying-in-the-wilderness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Joe Bageant, hands down, writes the best description of life under our global corporate feudalism, empire, wealth bondage, what have you, that I&#8217;ve yet to read&#8212;&#8220;Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown.&#8221; I am inspired, and disturbed. This is required reading. Go read it. And then read it again. And then print it out and give it to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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