religion
iPhoto caption: A prairie snowscape just outside of Edmonton Alberta. Image courtesy of Makram Ayache.
“Where does a queer, sort-of-Muslim, brainwashed-ex-evangelical-Christian teenager find themselves in adulthood?”
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Our world overflows with songs. Many of us live our lives with songs pumping into our ears; we walk, run, drive, fly, work, play, and love to songs.
The pamphlet showed a young contemporary James Dean–style figure, leaning on a wall in a cool, loitering pose next to an electric guitar. It read: “Christ Embassy Church: God believes in YOU!”
iPhoto caption: Barbara Gordon, Bahareh Yaraghi, Niki Landau, Blair Williams and Diane Flacks in Unholy. Photo by John Lauener.
Like almost every leftie Jew, progressive Muslim, or lapsed Catholic, I come by my mistrust of religion honestly.