
Food For Thought
Thanksgiving is a strange expedition in our culture: Is it about genocide, New England cuisine, or political tensions in your family? That’s a lot of range.
Thanksgiving is a strange expedition in our culture: Is it about genocide, New England cuisine, or political tensions in your family? That’s a lot of range.
Everyone knows the story about the Hookman–but why? This redoubtable but stupid urban legend sticks around because, like devil myths, it has an agenda.
Can you outlaw a religion–Satanism, Santeria, Voudon?–in the US, religious freedom notwithstanding? According to the Supreme Court…it depends?
If we trust god in a way that’s (somehow) secular, can we trust Satan too? If we say Satan in a ceremonial and patriotic mode, would the courts protect it?
What’s the difference between monuments to Christopher Columbus or the Confederacy and effigies to Satan? Well, only every single possible thing.
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