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   XPost: talk.religion.pantheism   
   From: ingilt@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:42:46 -0500, Dreamer In Colore wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:15:57 -0330, David Dalton    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>My religious views have been influenced more by   
   >>science fiction than by the bible.   
   >   
   > If they've been influenced more by science fiction than by the bible,   
   > then why do you call them "religious views"? Why not just call them   
   > "opinions"? Seems to me that adding the word "religious" adds baggage   
   > that isn't necessary.   
      
   Where does science fiction turn into faith, or vice versa?   
   Scientology is faith, albeit pretty whacko, but it has some   
   seriously s/f elements.   
      
   OR take Christianity: much of the story of Jesus Christ   
   makes much more sense when reintertpreted as a science   
   fiction yarn.  Healings, feeding multitudes, reviving the   
   (apaprently) dead, even the alleged resurrection can   
   reasonably be explained in the context of superior (aka   
   "alien") technology.   
      
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