Well, all I know about them is what I hear on the news, including Fox (I hit Google News every morning). Of course, they could all be real Christians, just woefully misguided.

Only if you define "conservativism" to be "Godless, quasi-aristocratic swine"

That describes Pat Robertson, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John Boehner, Newt Gingrich, etc, none of whom seem any more spiritual to me than the religious leaders who had Jesus executed.

No, it doesn't say that at all. The conservatives were trying to "to catch him in his words" and get him to say something against Roman law, and asked him directly if one should pay taxes. "Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give?"

Roman tax collectors were corrupt, they were thieves, and people hated them. The Jewish religion demanded animal sacrifice.

"But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Mark 12:14-17) There wasn't a word about the futility of life (That would be the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind")

I'm not going to deny that people have been herded for centuries in the name of Christianity; however, I would point out that a reading of the actual words of Jesus of Nazareth (a Jew's Jew) does not require such. In fact, the Gospel, as written, drives quite a different direction.

Indeed. I, for one, don't understand "conservative Christians" because Jesus was decidedly liberal, while the men who demanded his torture and execution were conservatives.

Examples of Jesus' politics...
Taxes: "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's"
Free health care: He supplied it himself.
Free education: He supplied that as well.
Free food? Ditto. All things that today's conservatives rail against.
"The Meek shall inherit the Earth" but I have yet to see a meek televangelist. Those guys are exactly like the Jewish church leaders who hated Jesus for exposing their hypocrisy.

Thanks, just did a little checking and it appears the Kindle doesn't support ePub, so I've added Amazon's AZW3. Actually, it looks like since Mars, Ho! will be an Amazon eBook, AZW3 will probably be the "officially" supported version.

Here are AZW3s for the two finished ones:
Nobots
The Paxil Diaries

I just now updated my web site to add these.

Amazon gets $.99, so I'll get a dollar and a penny from each sale. It will probably be quite a while before I'm done editing "Mars", though.

What's your favorite eBook format? What reader are you using?

Fred Pohl. I didn't drop him, I just thought his last book was boring.

I made it about halfway through Tale of Two Cities, it started becoming a tedious read, but I don't think language had much to do with it, and neither would it be presented as a serial. His A Christmas Carol is still a favorite, though.

Indeed they are.

Well, anyone can make those errors when very sleepy or drunk, but some folks always do. The last data I saw said that only 3% of Americans read books regularly. So 97% of Americans are either illiterate (1% of the population) or aliterate. I'm pretty sure that's where the problem stems from.

No need to do so in every damned post, but yeah.