God Decays

Howard Rhodes, an NSA cryptanalyst, engineered the zombie apocalypse. So said the President of the United States in his shocking final address to the nation, which served as the American epitaph. Four years later, the old world is in ruins and is stalked by the living dead. Many survivors keep journals to record their travails in the hope that their lives still matter.

Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about God Decays , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 04, Mike Hillcoat rated it it was amazing Shelves: This self-published debut by Benjamin Cain is set to enrich and horrify any fans of the genre in this first of an epic zombie masterwork. Longtime blogger and recovering academic, the author has poured this background into portraying a possible real-life epidemic, one where undead cannibals are unleashed by the work of a single madman - evoking in its way the tension and drama of Herbert's The White Plague.

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Some adapt with an ease that will make empires of the undead. Others take to worshiping the famous among them. Only a few stand together to preserve something that might be called honour, though it might be called zombie food. The author is turning strictly carnal entertainment into something that can still retain its philosophic voice and contemporary human commentary. Be terrified and appalled.

It's certainly an intriguingly unconventional take on the subject. I'll post my comments over there, once I get a chance to read it more in depth which is one of the reasons I enjoy translating material. Oh, I almost forgot. Here's a neat coincidence: You release your book, just as I post my finalized translation of Thomas Paine's theological works ; a rather lengthy leftover of my early experimentation with Deism and biblical criticism PDF available through the image. I've got another one on religion coming out this Monday and it will connect a number of ideas, I think, including mythopoeic cognition, the existential aspect of Judaism, modern alienation, and a metaphor-based theory of meaning intentionality.

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Have you reached some conclusions as to how the Bible should be interpreted? Do you subscribe to a certain school of thought on the matter? What do you think of Panbabylonism? I just mean linking both words with one large D - God above with the D big enough that it can also begin the word Decay at the bottom. Possibly all lower case except for the D.

Without ranting too much, I can safely say that John Shelby Spong's direction is the only viable long-term solution for Christianity. I've also seen at least one Orthodox theologian shift to a similar view and given that the Orthodox are usually the most stubborn to make deep doctrinal changes, I'm inclined to believe that it is being recognized that the onslaught of scientific thought doesn't leave much room to maneuver other than this.

I suspect Europe and the liberal US will more or less shift to this perspective in a couple of centuries, if not sooner. The wild card is really African Christianity; namely the inroads US fundamentalism is making there, the parallel pressure of Islam and the mistrust of the cultural products of Colonial Europe; I can't really hazard a guess as to what theology might congeal there. As for Panbabylonism, I pretty much view it in the same light as Jesus Mythicism: Looking forward to your article ;. Damn, second time in a row I forget something; feel free to merge the comments if it's a bother Here's an intriguing snippet I came across online today.

It's from the writings of an controversial Greek philosophy professor that eventually withdrew in self-exile in the mountains of Sparta in ; he basically dropped off the face of the earth and his body was discovered in Sometimes I wonder if he was trying to emulate Nietzsche's Zarathustra, though the prevailing opinion is he was following in the steps of Empedocles. I agree that Spong's liberal theology is less obnoxious and embarrassing than the literalistic kind, but I don't think liberal Christianity is particularly inspiring.

That sort of religion slides off into atheism or New Age do-it-yourself, feel-good movements. For example, another well-known Canadian liberal, who was a Rhodes Scholar and the religion columnist for the Toronto Star was Tom Harpur, who became a Jesus mythicist, writing The Pagan Christ which relies on the work of other mythicist authors to argue that the whole Christian story is a myth deriving from the Egyptian Osiris cycle. He maintains that true Christianity is Gnostic and spiritual and metaphorical, and so on, but really, where can a Christian go once she comes to think the whole gospel is a metaphor about the Christ within?

The religion becomes a self-help movement.

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The term colloquially refers to deities that either collect or rule over the dead, rather than those deities who determine the time of death. However, all these types are included in this article. Many have incorporated a god of death into their mythology or religion. As death, along with birth , is among the major parts of human life, these deities may often be one of the most important deities of a religion. In some religions with a single powerful deity as the source of worship, the death deity is an antagonistic deity against which the primary deity struggles.

The related term death worship has most often been used as a derogatory term to accuse certain groups of morally abhorrent practices which set no value on human life. In monotheistic religions, death is commonly personified by an angel instead of a deity.

List of death deities - Wikipedia

In polytheistic religions which have a complex system of deities governing various natural phenomena and aspects of human life, it is common to have a deity who is assigned the function of presiding over death. This deity may actually take the life of humans or, more commonly, simply rule over the afterlife in that particular belief system a single religion may have separate deities performing both tasks. The deity in question may be good, evil, or neutral and simply doing their job, in sharp contrast to a lot of modern portrayals of death deities as all being inherently evil just because death is feared.



Hades from Greek mythology is an especially common target. The inclusion of such a "departmental" deity of death in a religion's pantheon is not necessarily the same thing as the glorification of death which is commonly condemned by the use of the term "death-worship" in modern political rhetoric. A death deity has a good chance of being either male or female, unlike some functions that seem to steer towards one gender in particular, such as fertility and earth deities being female and storm deities being male.

In monotheistic religions, the one god governs both life and death as well as everything else.



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However, in practice this manifests in different rituals and traditions and varies according to a number of factors including geography, politics, traditions, and the influence of other religions. Emperor s of Youdu Capital City of the Underworld. Death is the protagonist in the science fantasy novel On a Pale Horse , book one in a series of 8 books, the " Incarnations of Immortality ".

In the novel The Book Thief , Death is the narrator of the story. Death is a recurring character in the Discworld series written by Terry Pratchett.