Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of wonder in our souls, we need to first fully embrace an ethos of exploration. Resting on one's laurels contributes to the malaise we may feel at times, so instead we ought to be eager for novelty and uncertainty in our investigation of poetry, philosophy, literature, art, religion and even our own relationships. One cannot know when a sense of wonder and inspiration will engulf one while enjoying these pursuits, but the feeling will be of unmistakable ecstasy when it finally strikes...
...received about 12,000 postings during the past year. There are online articles titled, to name a couple, "Memes, Metamemes and Politics" and "Memes, and Grinning Idiot Press." There are separate websites on "Meme Theorists on the Web" and the "Meme Gardening Page." There is even a new religion (tongue in cheek, I hope) called the "Church of Virus," complete with its own list of Sins and Virtues and its own patron saint (St. Charles Darwin). I was alarmed to discover a passing reference to "St. Dawkin...
...Religion is not new to the funny papers: Charles Schulz addresses it in Peanuts, although he notes, "I've avoided preaching, because I am a reasonable Midwestern student of the Bible." Bil Keane's The Family Circus portrays church and even heaven, but in a sentimental, child's-eye mode. Hart's religious strips are hard-core gospel. Last year Wiley's Dictionary, B.C.'s font of wacky definitions, featured "cross reference": no words, just three rags nailed to a cross, bearing biblical citations for Christ's suffering. The effect, for someone expecting the usual caveman shtick, is like finding...
...fourth group, which Gomes called "in many ways the most interesting," is made up of "people who discover religion once they're here...
...fifth group of religious identity, which Gomes said has always been here, is "those for whom religion is, in some sense, a threat, for whom religion is a cultural liability...