J. Neil Schulman
@ Rational Review
About J. Neil Schulman
J. Neil Schulman is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, filmmaker, composer, and actor.
His dozen books include the novels Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza, both of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel, and the anthology Nasty, Brutish, And Short Stories.
His latest novel is the comic fantasy, Escape from Heaven, in which a radio-talk-show host manages the election campaign of Jesus to win back the earth from Jesus’ ex-wife, Satan.
Schulman’s articles and essays have been published in magazines ranging from National Review to Cult Movies, and in newspapers including articles for the Los Angeles Times.
His nonfiction books include Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns, endorsed by Academy-Award-winner Charlton Heston, The Frame of the Century? in which he suggested an alternate killer who could have framed O. J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife, and his autobiographical I Met God — God Without Religion, Scripture, or Faith, in which this former atheist describes the experiences that led him to conclude the existence of God, but still distance himself from all religions.
His latest book is Unchaining the Human Heart — A Revolutionary Manifesto, in which J. Neil Schulman makes the case that liberty is a necessity for the attainment of happiness.
Most recently Schulman moved into independent filmmaking as the writer, director, and executive producer of the comic-thriller feature film, Lady Magdalene’s, starring Star Trek icon (and fellow executive producer) Nichelle Nichols.
Schulman played Al Qaeda terrorist Ali in the film, and even composed the music for two songs (and lyrics for three more) for the soundtrack. The production held its world première screening on February 2, 2008 at the San Diego Black Film Festival, where it won the festival’s “Best Cutting Edge Film” award. On October 1, 2008, following its fifth film-festival screening, Lady Magdalene’s won “Audience Choice” at the Cinema City International Film Festival. Post-production was completed in late 2009 and the film is available on Amazon.com Video-on-Demand while seeking brick-and-mortar distribution.
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November 6, 2010 - 5:11 pm
Dear Neil
Stumbled upon your website while researching for a dissertation topic for my MBA.
You may want to provide a link to this site which I think encapsulates your own sentiments and beliefs.
http://www.forfreedomssake.com/blog/about/
As a “neutral” spectator of the social and ideological ills that are turning the USA against itself as well turning its friends into foes , I must say that my own opinion is that it’s the dogma’s (especially the religious faith and commercial types) which are at the heart of the decline and eventual fall of the USA as global leader.
The Russians and Chinese, although once devout communists who had destroyed their religious dogma’s during the communist/socialsit revolutions, are now accelerating and will eventually surpass the USA. Thjey have a clearer way before them devoid of dogma and stigma associated with race, creed and faith.
Al Qaida is cleverly engaging USA in a religious war which in effect is merely a decoy while others strip the USA of their intellectual property and any other copyrights they stake a claim to. Remember it was Werner von Braun of Nazi Germany who invented the rocket and who was bestolen by the USA. I could list others but you get the picture no doubt.
So answer me this one question please:
Who owns the original manuscript(s) of the bible? And please don’t be so foolish to say King Kames I or the Gideon Society.
So why is the USA not asking the originators “permission” to print/copy each new bible as well as their endorsement to restyle, rewrite and recontextualize it to suit their own particular interpretations?
America must stop measuring with two measures and start believing what their original native habitants rightly claimed that , “white man speaks with forked tongue”.
After al what is good for the goose is good for the gander.