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

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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)