It is interesting to see the propaganda "art" of SIF. It is a textbook example of religious kitsch, pretty lame unless you happen to have at any point believed in the message they promote. Then, as Vera has pointed out, they can be disturbing and trigger anxiety. I wouldn't throw them in the same bin with really great art of Bosh, Dante etc. Those works are still great because th
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I am very sorry to see the websites created by Cara James gone. The satire, the cartoons, the games - ROTFL. I'd a brief albeit traumatic encounter with this group many years ago and the humor, especially of the chriskcon page, was healing and liberating. I can understand how SoI is scared of this material. People can acknowledge making mistakes, but to see that one was, or is, a part of s
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