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Offbeat, acclaimed Web site aimed at seekers, skeptics.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ Somewhere in near cyberspace, a breed of religious loners is circling restlessly. Call them the Intellectual Questers. You may be one of them.
The IQs tend to be self-conscious sophisticates and masters of irony and wit. As products of popular culture, they ponder song lyrics and movie scenes, not Scripture. They're ever on the lookout for sham and absurdity in modern life.
Yet beneath their hip, postmod exteriors beat hearts that yearn for cosmic wisdom and even God. In their achy, ambivalent searching, the IQs feel out on their own, skeptical that the pulpit will give them only boring bromides and the academy only deconstructive dismissiveness. So they drift like free electrons between faith and doubt, between old answers and new.
Jeffrey Sharlet and his friends are offering this edgy alt-flock an Internet mooring station. From his apartment office in Philadelphia, the Gen-X journalist produces an irreverent little Web-zine with the arresting name KillingtheBuddha.com.
"KtB," as Sharlet refers to the site, is a commercial-free forum for all manner of IQ True Confessions. Since its launch in the fall, it has found a niche among the million-plus religion Web sites and built a steady following. In May, ...
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