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...beaten, or God if the word weren't loaded with so much human hope and superstition. Think of it more neutrally as the nameless Subject of so much that happens, like the It in "It is raining": something "out there" and vastly different from ourselves, but not so alien that we cannot hope to know Its ways...
Book Publishing: Scientology mischiefmaking has even moved to the book industry. Since 1985 at least a dozen Hubbard books, printed by a church company, have made best-seller lists. They range from a 5,000-page sci-fi decology (Black Genesis, The Enemy Within, An Alien Affair) to the 40-year-old Dianetics. In 1988 the trade publication Publishers Weekly awarded the dead author a plaque commemorating the appearance of Dianetics on its best-seller list for 100 consecutive weeks...
When Webb and DeGiorgio declare that our society is based on Judeo-Christian tradition, they really mean that our society is based upon Christian tradition, which appropriated Jewish sources and overlayed them with new, often alien, interpretations. Their citation of the "Old Testament" as a central Jewish text is a case in point. Give a Jewish book a Christian name and a Christian interpretation, and the result is--Christianity...
Endangered species, a significant portion of the contraband smuggled into Taiwan, appeal to rich consumers there for a number of reasons. Environmentalism is a new and alien concept; Chinese society tends to emphasize the utility of animals. Exotic pets are status symbols, while pelts are hung in the homes of the wealthy. Eating elaborately prepared dishes featuring endangered animals carries mystical connotations of power. This is jinbu: if you eat a tiger's eyes, for example, your eyes are said to assume the acuity of a tiger's. Many folk medicines are made from the teeth or organs of exotic...
...best, alternately conforming to and rebelling against the century-old traditions of the school. She was elected vice president of her senior class and excelled in English. But Cary also tried marijuana for the first time the night before an exam. And she actively avoided blending into the "alien" white culture--Cary "took the offensive and bore my gifts proudly" in conversations about race...