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Scott Robinson
Sep 4, 20205 min read
The Neighborhood
Here’s one of the happiest pieces of the past for me. When we lived in Lexington, we were nestled in a quiet, very peaceful post-war...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20202 min read
Creature from Hell
A year after my week as the boyfriend of Mary Bock from Roachdale, that town rose to my attention again. As school resumed in the fall...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Cousins
My Fundamentalist youth began, of course, the day I was born, at Kentucky Baptist Hospital in Louisville, to Fundamentalist parents –...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Woman Watching
Men notice women. Women notice men. We’re wired to notice the opposite sex, and to experience attraction when we do. We couldn’t shut it...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 31, 20204 min read
Dad's Guitar
In 1970, our family lived in East Point, Georgia, a community ironically to the west of Atlanta. My father had taken what would end up...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 30, 20205 min read
Jesus Woodstock
(Photo courtesy of Bill Roberts) Back to the summer of 1971. For reasons I was never clear on, I was on my first just-me-and-Dad trip...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 30, 20205 min read
All Grown-Ass Men Love Batman
“There are 492 billionaires in the United States, and not one of those losers has decided to become Batman.” ~Pinterest meme Since I was...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 29, 20206 min read
ReachOut House
My dad’s church camp dean thing was only one expression of his propensity for youth ministry. Still just early thirtysomething himself,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 27, 20205 min read
The Magic Man
It’s the summer of 1971. We now live in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in a very old house on Water Street, built almost a century earlier. Up...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20204 min read
My Actual Church
My ultimate fate was decided on the night of October 27, 1967. How do I remember that so precisely? It’s right there in Wikipedia,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20206 min read
Rapture Terror
The idea of the “End Times”, that era of human history either directly before or directly after the Second Coming of Christ (depending on...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 202010 min read
Church Camp
When you spend as much time in church as families like ours did – which is to say, every moment of every day you weren’t at home or in...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 18, 20202 min read
Under the Sheets
When I was a kid, growing up immersed in Midwestern Fundamentalism, we had to be pretty innovative in seeking out fun. We spent an...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 14, 20205 min read
Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, weighed in on that most...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 14, 20208 min read
The 13th Album
A favorite game of Beatles fans has always been to speculate about what would have happened had the band gotten back together. A more...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20203 min read
The Smell of the Lord
So I’m walking into a Baptist church in the Midwest for a wedding, and I hold the door for the maid of honor. As I step inside, I’m hit...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20204 min read
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Restored: Diversity, in mind and form, restores the path to evolutionary success... Infinite Diversity, in Infinite Combinations - IDIC....
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20209 min read
The Will of the Mob
Distortion: It is natural and good to congregate with the like-minded. Call it cognitive clustering. Once human beings started settling...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20206 min read
The Devil in the Dark
Distortion: The advent of agriculture, animal domestication and permanent settlement made us civilized. That impulse – the systematic...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20208 min read
How Morality Evolved
Myth: Human morality is a product of reason, a consequence of civilization. Through the lens of 20th century sociology, human beings are...
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