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October 30, 2010

Reflections on Our Monstrous Creations

John Morehead, Religion Dispatches


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It’s October and the telltale signs of Halloween are everywhere; everything from candy to breakfast cereal marketed in orange and black, doors and windows festooned with fake cobwebs and, on a slightly less positive note, evangelicals intensify their critique of all things macabre and “occultic.

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