Overexorcising Or Overstating? Bob Larson. He’s still at it. Traveling around the world, rescuing demon-possessed people, driving evil entities back into The Pit! I’ve followed Larson’s impressive career over the years, first on his radio program, then on TV. Then he seemed to have dropped off the spiritual map. But the other day I found an article about him online, an uncritical piece featured in the Toledo Blade by David Yonke, Blade Religion Editor. ("Pastor feels called to fight demons," Saturday, February 11, 2006.) If you want to win the reader’s attention, you have to have a good hook, grab them right from the first line. Here’s how Yonke opened his article: “The Rev. Bob Larson has been kicked, bruised, choked, and spit upon. His ribs have been broken, he has been scratched and bitten, and he's received death threats.” Wow. And it’s even more startling when it is stated that Larson is 61 years old! In the article Larson proclaims that he’s “The Exorcist.” That’s...
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Cartoon Violence Recently I received an email from a friend, a visual artist, about the Danish cartoons that have led to violent clashes with Moslem demonstrators in some parts of the world. He wrote: Is this what all the fuss is about? find attached a copy of the danish cartoons in question. pretty lame if you ask me. And I replied: There was a segment about this story on TV last night (60 Minutes). The cartoons included in your email were the only ones that appeared in the Danish newspaper. Apparently an Islamic cleric in Denmark send those along with other ones that were very offensive to his contacts in Iran, implying that all of them had been published. So this hatemonger went out of his way to stir up trouble. But I can understand why some Moslems are reacting in such a severe way. (I understand why; I don't agree with it.) Look at how a nation's flag, especially in the US, is considered to be sacred by a majority of its citizens. People have been brainwashed by those in ...
So THAT’S What Happened To Glenn Campbell Did the men in green finally scare him off from Area 51? I first heard about Glenn Campbell years ago when I stumbled across an issue of his zine, The Groom Lake Desert Rat , while “surfing the Web,” to use the phrase of that day. The zine dealt with Area 51, the secret base in Nevada where it’s been rumored the US government is testing ET technology back-engineered from crashed UFOs. And if you find that difficult to believe, how about whispered tales of aliens living at the base, helping primitive earthlings build their own flying saucers? With such material, Campbell could’ve peddled it as the shocking truth and made some extra money, cashing in on the resulting sensationalism. To his credit, he only dealt in facts, saying that he approached the ET stories as modern myths. The determination of whether or not the stories were true was beyond his resources. I was disappointed when Campbell ended The Rat with last issue dated November, 1997. T...
The Way The Future Wasn't Back in the early days of the space age – the late 1950s – it seemed that the US had decided on a practical plan to conquer the frontier beyond the earth’s atmosphere. First: build a vessel that would launch on the top of a rocket but would return to the earth like a plane, gliding to a landing with its wings. Second: use the space plane to transport the materials needed to assemble a station orbiting the earth. Then, use the station to build ships that would take man to his nearest neighbor, the moon. That’s the plan laid out in the book, Space Flight: The Coming Exploration of the Universe, by Lester Del Rey (1958). Aimed at young readers, this book features illustrations by John Polgreen that originally looked futuristic, but nowadays look retro. There’s something about a “spaceman” in his protective suit, floating above the earth with mechanical claws attached to his gloves and boots, that says 1950s movie sci fi. I wonder why the plan laid out in th...