I am going to begin posting relatively *brief* comments about books I’ve read lately, to keep up with what I’ve been reading. My extensive book summaries with comments take a long time to set up; by waiting to post anything about a book I’ve read until such a complete post is ready is a kind of “perfect is the enemy of good”. I can do shorter posts and keep up, and these shorter posts might actually be more useful to readers, than my lengthy summaries and comments have been.
But already I’m writing too much. Today’s post is about Philip K. Dick’s THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, published in 1962, winner of the Hugo Award, and a few years ago basis for a TV series… which I had not seen. I reread the novel a couple weeks ago.
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Ls&Cs: The Fading of Religion, and Human Progress Despite It
Here are several links about religion I’ve captured in recent weeks mostly to the Patheos.com website, which is a collection of blogs from all points of view along the religious spectrum. The ones I tend to read, of course, are those devoted to pointing out the latest religious hypocrisies, especially among politicians, and those by people who once believed and left the church, and are happy to explain why, often in great detail. (They are the smart ones who have figured it out, as I keep saying.) Precisely the sites that believers will ignore. As they will ignore this post.
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