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The Jesus and Religion Video

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A video of a young man reciting a poem has ‘gone viral’ on the Internet. In the video, he explains why he “hates religion” but “loves Jesus”. His rant against institutional religion is understandable. He’s against hypocrisy, formalism, legalism, complacency, and phony suburban American Christianity. He wants to love Jesus instead… . Continue Reading »

Interview with an Ex-Vampire Novelist

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Anne Rice, famous for such erotic novels as The Vampire Chronicles , has in recent years returned to the Catholicism of her childhood and begun work on a series of novels about the life of Jesus Christ. The first volume, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt , received a less-than-positive review in the . . . . Continue Reading »