SATAN: SCI-FI FANBOY

[defrog]

Yr fundamentalist warning of the day:



The usual suspects are there, though he forgot obvious anti-Christian sci-fi writers like Father Andrew Greeley, John C Wright, Tim “Rapture Me!” Lahaye and CS Lewis.

On the plus side: he actually acknowledges Kurt Vonnegut as a science-fiction writer.

Progress!

That’s not science,

This is dF

Comments

[nebris.livejournal.com]

He looks like a Bad Touch Daddy. =)

~M~

[wookiemonster.livejournal.com]

Oh good gods... I grew up with that kind of crap and fortunately grew away from it. I know Einstein was, at least, taken out of context...

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I didn't hear too much on this front when I was younger. Mostly they were going on about the rock musics. Though I did know one devout Christian who thought Carl Sagan was dangerous for pushing evolution as fact, but they were talking about Cosmos, not Contact (which, come to think of it, is the only novel he ever wrote as far as I know).

[wookiemonster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was that push, too. But a lot of sci-fi, especially Star Wars, Star Trek, and anything fantasy, of course, was labeled as "New Age."

vocabulary failure

[zuma.livejournal.com]

what's the word for mind control? the first day of school comes to mind when they call it [that lost word] day, what they call 'orientation' now...

i hate getting old. i forget names and words, not faces and ideas...

anyway, i have a point to begin to get to, i'm just flummoxed.

such folks trying to -aha! indoctrination is the word i wanted, or at least close enough- indoctrinate others have zero tolerance for any whiff of speculation on anything. and sci-fi is definitely speculation. even ben bova's work is. indoctrinators don't put up with other fiction crowding their victim's imagination one whit... hell, open-mindedness at all is the devil's sandbox to them.

i wonder what jesus thought about creativity and imagination? i wonder why he didn't exhort it. but then again, i wonder like crazy why in the hell did he drink wine of all things. (okaysure, some folks say it was actually 'mixed wine', but i digress.) i seriously believe a whole lot of christianity got lost or tossed in the 4th century. i'd love to have been a fly on the wall at the council of nicea.

sigh.

heaven help us if we dare not enter 'strange worlds'... wait, i forgot, we live in one...

maybe indoctrination wasn't the word.

'What we got here is a failure to communicate.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_we've_got_here_is_(a)_failure_to_communicate)