Buddha Born Again, Killed
–Jeff Sharlet KillingTheBuddha.com — “cheaper than church,” “paved with good intentions,” “Allah in the family,” “god for the godless” — lives. When I took the job of running The Revealer two years ago, Continue Reading →
Search Results for: Patton Dodd
Evil Preachers Are Scary
“In the Hollywood representational rubric,” writes New Pantagruelist Patton Dodd(also, we’re proud to say, a Buddha Killer and a Revealer) “evangelical characters are often contextualized by aggression. They are, in fact, forces of violence: Continue Reading →
Daily Links 30 November 2004
“That’s Simply Not True.” Cheers to Anderson Cooper for breaking out of the “objectivity” mold that usually lets guys like Jerry Falwell present theology as fact. God / Spy Retired FBI Special Continue Reading →
A Different Species of Christian Conservative 20 November 2004 Daily Link
A Different Species of Christian Conservative 20 November 2004 Jeff Sharlet: This is how much I like The New Pantagruel, an intellectual webmagazine that defies description but skews small-o orthodox Christian Continue Reading →
God's Awful Music, Pure & Clean
God’s Awful Music, Pure & Clean 17 November 2004 “We have been given a terrible choice: Michael Landon and Highway to Heaven or Angus Young and Highway to Hell.” By Patton Dodd Evangelical Continue Reading →
God's Awful Music, Pure & Clean
God’s Awful Music, Pure & Clean 17 November 2004 “We have been given a terrible choice: Michael Landon and Highway to Heaven or Angus Young and Highway to Hell.” By Patton Dodd Evangelical Continue Reading →
Daily Links October 5 2004
Forensic Theology, Ideological Surveillance Would Osama bin Laden call his enemies foreign “agents” or “infidels”? Would he speak of 9/11 as an “event” or a “raid”? Would Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Continue Reading →
Too Much Pot, Too Much Beer
Revealer contributor Patton Dodd gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly for his first book, My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion. It’s Slacker meets Thomas Merton, and better than both. From Publishers Weekly: MY FAITH SO Continue Reading →
Save This
What’s the difference between born-again and bad-to-the-bone? Saved! doesn’t answer and the press doesn’t care. By Patton Dodd Evangelicals on film occupy an odd if unsurprising position: they are almost always represented Continue Reading →
A Yellow Star for Mel
At last — the big day for what may be the biggest religion story in 2,000 years — the theatrical release of The Passion. The mainstream press periodically discovers that institutional Continue Reading →