Ananta Androscoggin

If you haven't already read it, there's a book assembled by a slightly famous Deist of a mere couple of centuries ago, who sat down with a couple of bibles, some scissors and a pot of glue. "The Jefferson Bible," by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. My own teen-aged crisis of faith was brought about by being with Baptists, and the very intense reading that it resulted in -- in the attempt to convince myself that Christianity was where I belonged -- finally forced me to reject it. I simply did not have enough of the right kind of hypocrisy in me to be a "good Christian." I learned that Christianity's dominance in Europe was not due to its "superiority as a religion," but to the superior willingness of its followers to kill or enslave any peoples who would not willingly convert and submit. I learned too many other things to put in such a post as this thread. Good hunting in your seeking, and may your path contain only those rocks and brambles that Deity intends to help you learn.

Kill-o-Byte by Piers Anthony

I've been collecting links to a few sites for a while now, so here's the lot: http://www.abbottchurchgoods.com/ http://www.academicapparel.com/?gclid=CMG4...CFQlHPgodG33iug http://www.artneedlecraft.com/ http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/ http://www.autom.com/ http://www.avemariaportland.com/ http://albanach.org/clergy_tartan.htm http://collectibles.search.ebay.com/Clergy...rchiZQQsaprcloZ http://www.dancingsilk.com/stoles.html http://www.garbtheworld.com/pgs/robes.shtml http://www.gospelcolors.com/search.php?cat...7683a997b464d54 http://www.karunaarts.com/retail/catalogpage http://www.robeshop.com/index.html http://www.mckaychurchgoods.com/ http://www.murphyrobes.com/ http://www.clergyapparel.com/ http://www.thesashcompany.com/clergy.html http://www.saxonuniform.com/regalia/index.html http://www.trimandtassels.safeshopper.com/ http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Sect...ContentID=10625 http://www.kencollins.com/how-10.htm http://www.kencollins.com/glossary/vestments.htm

Shakespeare, Robert Graves, Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Robert Sheckeley (sp?), and quite possibly (after I've devoured a few more of his works) Joseph Campbell