Category Archives: October

The Seven Seals of Fundamentalism

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Andreas Apostolopoulos

“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven….” Book of Revelation 8:1 I’d like to use this post to make a convenient analysis of the above image, in light of Strozier’s essay “Opening the Seven … Continue reading →

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War in the End of Time

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Grecia H.

Last week, I questioned why people fight until the very end even when they know it won’t make a difference. What is the point of one last act of violence when peace is just one step away? In this week’s … Continue reading →

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Paranoia: the Self, Divided

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Sam Barnes

Whilst warrior Christ was busy establishing his banal utopia in the fiction aisle of our Doomsday curricula, Charles Strozier was profiling a darker side of “things that must shortly come to pass” in his essays on the apocalyptic roots of the … Continue reading →

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Separation and the Lack Thereof

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Sam Barnes

The ultimate marker of the fundamentalist mindset, as described by Strozier et al. in their eponymous collection, is the “radical dualism” that permeates both the individual and group consciousness.  Certainly, the Manichean tendency of polarizing reality as good or evil … Continue reading →

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Debates!

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Lee Quinby

I’ve read your posts twice and am delighted to see that there are enough conflicting positions among them to suggest that we can have a lively debate about both the novel and the essays. So, let’s plan on that for … Continue reading →

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