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   From: gudloos@yahoo.com   
      
   "Alex W."  skrev i meddelelsen   
   news:1qqw5xpx6p66e$.1gnbrmqdco8mx$.dlg@40tude.net...   
   > 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.   
      
      
   And has been done in a number of science fiction stories that included the   
   Jesus figure.   
      
   --   
   thomas p   
      
   Ignorance is the mother of devotion.   
      
   David Hume   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)