Killing the Buddha, the outstanding online literary magazine, has been redesigned. If you haven’t visited the award-winning magazine in a while, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by some of the changes including a new navigation structure and searchable archives. If you’re just learning of Killing the Buddha as you read this, by all means visit now. You’ll be glad you did.
From the “Manifesto” on their website:
Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not.
The above sentiment is one shared by us at Not About Religion.
If after visiting Killing the Buddha you like what you read, you must read the printed book of the same same. Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, by KTB founders Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet, is one of the most ingenious, original, and thoroughly entertaining books in my collection. The book is comprised of 13 psalms, relating Mansea’s and Sharlet’s adventures as they travel across America is search of this thing called “religion.” Interwoven between these psalms are 13 books of the Bible, rewritten and re-imagined by 13 very different, but very talented writers. Required reading in my humble opinion.


