Religion, SF, and Other Speculative Fictions.


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Pass this on to your Christian friends:

October 1st, 2008 · by John · 5 Comments

They should do a “charity” version for Mormons and other fans of the King James Version.

I’m an atheist, and I approve this message.  via Andrew Sullivan.

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Spark: Naming

October 1st, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

From the “you have power over what you name” files comes this story of a woman who found out who she was in the process of naming herself.

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Tags: Belief · Creativity. · Feminism · Getting over Religion · News · Society · Spark

On Palin: Sexism from Her Own Party

October 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Cannot. Wait. For. The. Debate.

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Cultural Gender

October 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

There’ve been a couple articles about gender & children’s clothing that recently got me thinking. One of my sisters has 4 boys and one girl (the youngest). Her boys all wear hand-me-downs (as I remember doing, myself), but the girl has new clothes. New, pink clothes. Sometimes not pink but instead lavender and frilly. I’ve [...]

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Tags: Consumerism · Dialog · Feminism · Gender · Pop Culture · Women