Don Lattin's Blog

• Maj. Hasan of Ft. Hood Infamy Reads My Stuff

  November 13, 2009

  • Blogger Charles Cameron alerts me to the eerily disturbing news that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Muslim Army shrink and accused mass murderer, borrowed a quote from one of my articles in the SF  Chronicle in a June 2007 Powerpoint demonstration to his colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In the final bullet point of slide 11 he writes in quotes, “It’s getting harder and harder ...
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• Karen Armstrong and the "Case for God"

  November 3, 2009

  • Karen Armstrong has written another big book about the various ways people throughout history and across cultures envision and explain what they can neither see nor understand.This new work by the prolific British author is titled "The Case for God." It takes 411 pages to argue that the postmodern believer must find a theology of silence, a catechism beyond words.Her message inspires ...
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• Doomsday Coming to a Theater Near You

  October 23, 2009

  •  News of Elizabeth Clare Prophet's death sent me tripping back two decades, to the summer of 1989, when the news media descended on Paradise Valley, Montana, to wait out the biggest religion non-story of all time–the end of the world.Let us pause for a moment of silence–to remember one prophet and prepare for 2012 and the next outbreak of doomsday fever.  Prophet, the charismatic ...
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