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Beware of Conservatism

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 9, 2010
With members of the religious right warned to “beware of science fiction” because prominent names in the field are atheists or preach secularism, I wonder what they would think of Barry Goldwater, hero of modern American Conservatism. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The [...]
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Beware of the Founding Fathers

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 8, 2010
If members of the religious right are to “beware of science fiction” because prominent names in the field are atheists or agnostics, then they may wish to beware of the founding fathers as well. However, this may create a logical paradox for constitution-touting teabaggers and cause them to self-destruct (Warning: self-destruction resulting from logical paradoxes [...]
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The Religious Right Takes on Sci-Fi

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 7, 2010
Oh Lord: Science fiction takes the reader into a strange world without God. Oh, there might be “a god,” a “force,” but it is definitely not the God of the Bible, and the prominent names in this field are atheists. … Science fiction is intimately associated with Darwinian evolution. Sagan and Asimov, for example, were [...]
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The 8th Commandment of the Republican Party

By Bryan Packman | Published: November 25, 2009
The Republican Party is considering a “purity test” – a list of 10 Commandments policy positions a candidate in the 2010 midterms must uphold, lest he risk being cutoff from RNC funding. The eighth item on the list reads as follows: (8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act; The Regressive Party seems [...]
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