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It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!

"Moore’s intense distrust of religion extends beyond Christianity, Islam and the rest of the usual suspects. Since the word religion really means “bound together in one belief”, he says that some of the extreme rationalists are as guilty. “I find the idea of being bound together in one belief as an article of faith kind of disturbing wherever that occurs, whether that’s in fundamentalist Christianity or it’s in some of the extremes of current rationalist science. It’s unnatural."

— The Big Issue in Scotland - Features - The very peculiar world of Alan Moore

(via Göbekli Tepe - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine)

I have to go to Gobekli Tepe. And soon. Please?

Zalmoxis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

which I blog mainly because it is interesting, but also because he was a god of the Thracian Dacians (whose machinations set my heart racin’ with fascination)

Grundtvigs Church on the Behance Network

The Secret History of Rock | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History

This is colliding with this - http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/11/grant-morrison-batman-inc/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&pid=1398&viewall=true - and that sotry about the Japanese pop star - and a story I was already pondering to make a thrilling idea…

Slouching Towards Bethlehem - The Lion Man.

I’ve seen the Lion Man before, but I’ve never really thought about it properly - but it is truly amazing

CultureLab: How our species owes its success to religion

This sounds like a very interesting theory, at least - suspect there’s something in it - now all we have do is engineer a religion that works even if you don’t believe in it. Oh no, wait, that’s the CofE, isn’t it?

The Museum Of Witchcraft - Boscastle in the late 1960`s (via Lost935)