Machine generated contents note: An Atheist's Lament. Pat Robertson Tells Us -- Origin -- Satanic Panic -- Be It as It May -- Blessed Defeat -- No Easy Way -- Supply Teacher's Lament -- People Change but Only If You Give Them Room to Do It -- Touched -- Windstorm -- For NM -- Covenant -- Weekend Warrior -- Huddle Up -- For CB -- Jesus Loves Me -- The Seventh Sign -- I'm Right Here -- The Temple -- Google -- "What Balls -- So It Goes Further Into The Deepest Darkness -- They Will Know Us -- Please Don't -- Losing Yahweh in Gananoque -- Move On -- Death by Prayer Wheel -- Billions and Billions -- This Is What Life Looks Like Some 200 Miles Above the Earth -- New World Order -- Relativity -- From Penuel to Jabbok (Wrestling The Angel) -- 2. Hulk Hogan -- 2. Terry Bollea -- I Had No Need of That Hypothesis -- A Sharp Stick -- Nothing Means Nothing, Yeah -- Inconsolable -- Batman V Superman -- A Father's Lament -- The Great and Little Speck -- We Come And Go All the Time -- I'll Tell You All the News -- Let the Little Children Come to Me -- A Million Dead End Streets -- Why Now -- Noam Chomsky Whispers in Your Ear -- Beautiful Scoundrel -- Come And See -- O My People! Their Oppressors Are Children and Women Rule Over Them -- Things Are Not So Good Right Now -- Lisa, We Cling to Them, Don't We -- Tammy Faye Bakker Sings to Me -- We Are This Now -- Any Wickedness, but the Wickedness of a Woman -- A Silent And Loving Woman Is a Gift Of The Lord -- Forbidden -- Our Time -- Mon-Fri -- Lyric for the Dead -- We Know This Much -- On Your Third Straight Visit to the Walk-In Clinic -- An Atheist's Lament.
Summary:
"Casting Out chronicles the author's entry as boy, progression through and eventual exit, as an adult, from the Pentecostal world. It's an attempt to reconcile the evidence-based reasoning of the speaker's present with the angels and demons of his past. This collection confronts what it means to be loved in a system that the speaker now finds not only irrational but hateful. The poems address the struggle to raise children in the absence of spiritual beliefs and contemplate the questions of whether imparting secular values is enough of a foundation, and how much should a child -- even if it is back towards the religious tradition the speaker has left behind -- be permitted to find her/his own path."-- Provided by publisher.
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