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Richard Dawkins, Slenderman and the Terrible Power of Fantasy
Not too long ago, Richard Dawkins asked parents: “Is it a good thing to go along with the fantasies of childhood, magical as they are?” Dawkins’ genius for publicity rivals Katie Hopkins’ and Miley Cyrus’s. When Richard wants a headline he shall have a headline: he uses preposterous statements and ludicrous questions to generate absurd amounts of free-advertising on Twitter and in newspaper columns.
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Tagged Dawkins, Imagination, Morality, New Atheism, Popologetics
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The Walking Dead and Eternal Life
The era of Western supremacy is drawing to an end as the colossal economies of China and India become as technologically advanced as Europe and America . Little wonder, then, that our appetite for apocalyptic fiction is growing. However, it is more than a little surprising to discover that end-times fiction has given an old B-Movie star – the zombie –a new lease of life.
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Tagged Good and Evil, Horror, Morality, nihilism, Right and Wrong, The Walking Dead, World War Z, Zombies
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