Hermits, Whores, and Snake Handlers

For a precise tally of last year’s exorcisms, strategies for spotting the Antichrist, and a complete list of humankind’s crackpot apocalyptic predictions, head for Books & Books this Tuesday and drop $16.99 on a copy of Michael Largo’s new tome, God’s Lunatics. Armed with the unwieldy subtitle Lost Souls, False...

By S. Pajot

August 5, 2010

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For a precise tally of last year’s exorcisms, strategies for spotting the Antichrist, and a complete list of humankind’s crackpot apocalyptic predictions, head for Books & Books this Tuesday and drop $16.99 on a copy of Michael Largo’s new tome, God’s Lunatics.

Armed with the unwieldy subtitle Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine, Largo’s book attempts to provide an encyclopedic chronicle of human history’s religious fanatics, cult con men, spiritual terrorists, and pilots to paradise. But it’s not just a freak show; God’s Lunatics also asks some pretty piquant questions about the relationship between the divine and the earthbound. For instance, “Is God really a self-flagellating deviant who speaks in tongues, dresses his wives in garbage bags, and charges admission to Heaven?”
Tue., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., 2010

S. Pajot

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