Category: Culture

Vagrant Story

Vagrant Story

You can read about my pick for the best video game ever over on the front page.

Liberty as Domination

Liberty as Domination

“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree...

Virtue and Sexism in Purity Culture

Virtue and Sexism in Purity Culture

One Sunday during the years of my adolescence I attended the morning worship service all by my lonesome. I forget the reason why. I sat down in a pew to the left of the...

Questioning Faith

Questioning Faith

(Cross-posted on the Front Page) Asking questions is dangerous business.  I have friends and acquaintances who, after completing an inquisition into their own religious beliefs, forsook their religion, kicked the dust from their feet,...

Roger Ebert, R.I.P.

Roger Ebert, R.I.P.

Famous film critic Roger Ebert has died.  He could be as scathing as any critic, but he also displayed a passionate love of movies and film-making more warmhearted and heartfelt than most others I...

Sin and Safe Religion

Sin and Safe Religion

In college I knew of young men who were apprehensive about kissing their girlfriends because they might have a lustful thought. One individual of my acquaintance, for this same reason, refused to hold hands...

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