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Okay, this was going to be the post where I link you to Christians In The Hand Of An Angry God, a series of five articles by bradhicks in which he makes some disturbing points about what has happened to Christianity in America of late, but that's going to have to be later. Check out the journal anyway; he's an interesting writer.

I picked up a book I had never seen before tonight, sent to me by a friend. In the back was an advert for two 1890s novels, Angel Of The Revolution and Olga Romanoff, Or The Syren Of The Skies, being reprinted under the overall title of (wait for it) Tsar Wars. I chuckled and put the book down. Now I'm scanning through Ebay and I see a CD for sale which purports to contain 5400 books. Full list of titles here. So I scroll through bunches of Classic Literature or what someone thought was c.l. to the bit at the end where there's just a jumble, and what do I see? The same two titles.

Now I've read the Celestine Prophecy and picked up a whole bunch of other stuff about the universe showing you things, and I have had vastly more spooky coincidences like that happen in recent years and not just because I'm noticing them more. But what, conceivably, could the universe mean by pointing me at two mostly long-forgotten books from more than a century ago? 'Your writing is old hat'?

I don't know. I just don't know.

Worth reading and thinking about

Christians in the Hand of an Angry God:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Five)

And part four is in the middle there. An interesting series of articles on why Christianity in America (and I suspect over here to some extent) is the way it is, and who did it.

But of course neither side is bad really, one must respect all points of view, they're all only trying to do their best for the country, and etc and so on. Oh yes.