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Practical Handbook

March 23rd, 2009 by Oskar Kennedy

In what I laughably call my “spare time” – when I’m not studying, looking for a job, or spending time with my family – I’m slowly putting together a book. It’s tentatively titled Practical Handbook For A Post-Religious Society. I conceived it as guidebook for a culture that has just realized that a majority of its citizens don’t have a strong supernatural belief. It seems to be a good framework in which to poke fun at all the weird and troubling ways that religion influences society.

I’m calling it a “book” in the same way that a hardcore pro-lifer can call a clump of undifferentiated cells a “baby”; that is, I say it while struggling mightily to keep a straight face. So far, it’s mostly a few pages of notes and a very few complete passages, in drafts so rough they could cause rug burn. Still, I think there’s the germ of a good idea there. If I can muster the discipline to wrestle it to the ground, it might even turn into a decent book.

I’m probably going to start posting excerpts once they’re in halfway readable shape. I figure you lot are collectively far smarter than I’ll ever be. Plus, I’m something of a feedback junkie, so hopefully you’ll be liberal with your opinions. You just have to promise to be straight with me. Praise is nice, but constructive criticism, sans sugar-coating, is far more valuable. Would you be up for that?

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