My friends in the nouveau paganism camp accuse me of quaintness: Bible thumpers are straw men, so why… — James Morrow
My friends in the nouveau paganism camp accuse me of quaintness: Bible thumpers are straw men, so why bother?...My answer is that straw men, once set aflame with zeal, can be quite dangerous, and that the gap between New Age irrationalism and Christian fundamentalism is not nearly so wide as we might wish to believe.
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