Re: Conciliatory moves over Easter
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 30, 2000, 8:50 |
Raymond Brown wrote:
> Yes, I was there once. I had to defend my change of faith at, seemingly,
> every turn & it tended to make me touchy also.
I'm curious, what did you convert from?
> Maybe - but the sad fact of life is that one has to - especially in an age
> when having any religion at all is looked up as something odd & archaic by
> many.
Something I find people of many faiths find troubling. That's one
problem I have with science fiction. With very few exceptions, religion
is portrayed as something either very rare or downright obsolete.
Farscape is one of the very few that portrays religion in a beneficial
light, especially thru Zhaan.
--
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men
believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of
the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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