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Tea with God

December 20, 2008



After a lifetime looking for God, Sue finally finds him.
And he's pretty steamy
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Avernus

December 20, 2008

We break from convention, (our own), to bring you a bit of poetry from a train-hopping' troubadour

Waiting for Lefty

December 12, 2008

KtB founder Jeff Sharlet's afterword from the new book,
Dispatches from the Religious Left

Mothers

November 11, 2008
On learning to inhale, and a breeze of insignificance. Another excerpt from Greg Bottoms' new book, Fight Scenes.

Kung Fu Dharma

November 11, 2008

The journey from Vipassana to Kickyourassana.

Proof Enough for Me

November 5, 2008
When the ususal proofs for God don't do the trick, sometimes you need to come up with your own.

Translator's Note

November 5, 2008

A lapsed Catholic discovers the magnificent God of his disbelief in a Yiddish library. An excerpt from KtB founder Peter Manseau's new novel.

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(Dis)Integrating Church and State

October 28, 2008
Someone might be tinkering with God's voting machine.

Forgiving

October 4, 2008

An open apology to Sarah Palin.
Really.

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the buddha is back.


June 2008--Since this site was first created in 2000, the unholy love child of Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau and Jeremy Brothers, religion stories have made it -- to glossy magazines covers, the babble of the blogosphere, and the bestseller list. But Killing the Buddha is still the only place for brazen stories of belief -- lost  and found and lost again.

Earlier this year, KTB was left behind -- for real children, great books and magazines that pay. But three new Buddha killers, initiates in the anti-tradition, have stormed the empty palace. We offer ourselves, among these hallowed and heretical pages, as your humble editors. Ashley Makar is praying that KtB will help her keep one foot out of the ivory tower; Meera Subramanian is guerrilla gardening in edens and underworlds while looking to the heavens for falcon gods; and Marissa Dennis is performing midrash at the intersections of borderlands and bodies. The Buddhas keep popping up on the road, right around the next bend, blinded by your headlights. We're here to help you lay on the gas, for free.

Join us as we spread the Word. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Poke us on Facebook. Let the show begin. Again.


Believer Beware

Do you know about the book? Not Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible. That’s yesterday’s scripture. Believer, Beware: First Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, featuring the best of Killing the Buddha's first incarnation, is forthcoming from Beacon Press. Buy it, thump it, burn it – that’s what scripture’s for, right? Or, better yet, write your own.

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

The new novel by
KtB founder Peter Manseau


The New York Times
best seller by
KtB founder
Jeff Sharlet

"One of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposes you'll ever read -- just don't read it alone at night!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed

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