‘Pagan America’ (Newswithviews, Dec. 3, 2015)

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I was too sick to write my Newswithviews column this week; so instead, here’s one from 2015 about Americans writing letters to a volcano goddess.

http://newswithviews.com/Duigon/lee331.htm

It’s a reproach to the church in America that such things should be. People truly believe they’ve offended that goddess by taking away a little chunk of rock from the state park, and that she’s gonna get them for it: so they send the rock back, along with a frantic letter of apology.

As I once observed in one of my immortal horror novels, the flip side of modern hi-tech scientific civilization is superstition and ignorance.

‘Threatening Your Neighbor… with Dolls’ (2015)

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You will search the New Testament in vain for any instructions as to how to put the whammy on your neighbor. So how does something like this happen in a Christian country?

https://leeduigon.com/2015/12/01/threatening-your-neighbor-with-dolls/

Yeah, yeah, all you humanist hormads out there, I know what you’re gonna say: “How dare you call this a Christian country?” Hiss, hiss, gollum-gollum. But you’re missing the point. Your religion, Science–it doesn’t recognize the power of voodoo dolls, does it?

I think this incident was a cultural warning signal. Not that anybody paid attention.