Overthinking Lost: Season 6 Episode 8
Lost and Catholicism: two great tastes that taste weird together!
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Religion on Overthinking It
Your Own Digital Jesus: The Religious Subtext of TRON
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Users, and of the Flynn, and of the Master Control.
The Dark Inquisitor
… all will follow him, crying, “Who can compare with this beast? He has given us fire from heaven!”
There is No Religious Undertone, Only Zuul
What does Ghostbusters really say about the religious idea of ghosts?
Vatican 1, Beatles 0: Why the Church still wins after forgiving John Lennon
Why does the Catholic Church repeatedly get itself into trouble by issuing official condemnations on pop culture? Isn’t it just digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole of cultural irrelevance?
American Catholics outsource prayer to India
This is pretty bizarre, right? (Yes, it’s four years old. It’s news to me.) It just reminds you that the Catholic Church has been around for a loooong time, and that institutional memory is way longer than even societal memory. … Continued
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