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Oct. 9th, 2008 11:05 amThe book I've least enjoyed, was a Christian propaganda, thinly veiled as a sci-fi novel. Just as the protagonist gives up looking for proof, and accepts that God had saved his life, the proof that it was a miracle all along pops up. The resolution just rings false with me.
I'm aware that many of the great historical works of art were produced explicitly for Christianity, but I tend to avoid anything from the last century that markets itself as such.
However of my favourite illustrators is taking part in an upcoming Christian comic book anthology. So it looks like I'll be buying something created explicitly as Christian. I'll be interested to see if it's not preachy. Or if it is, if the story and art is good enough to over come this.
I'm trying to figure out what this starslip extra comic says about Vanderbeam.
The Starslip universe has not (to my recollection) dealt with religion before.
In fact not many that I read do. Skin Horse lists blood types for its characters, but not religion.
I don't think the strips primary purpose was actually statement on Vanderbeam's religion. Nor his intelligence for that matter. It's not clear, but I don't think he's saying these are statements of fact. It's more of a comment on how he values Beauty above Truth. A view he's shown before. The only reason that the religious context is interesting is how conspicuous it is in its absence elsewhere.
Analysing an evolutionary model of religious memes.
Make your own Papercraft Ceiling Cat (if that's the bible translation you follow).
Seen at Snowking's
I'm aware that many of the great historical works of art were produced explicitly for Christianity, but I tend to avoid anything from the last century that markets itself as such.
However of my favourite illustrators is taking part in an upcoming Christian comic book anthology. So it looks like I'll be buying something created explicitly as Christian. I'll be interested to see if it's not preachy. Or if it is, if the story and art is good enough to over come this.
I'm trying to figure out what this starslip extra comic says about Vanderbeam.
The Starslip universe has not (to my recollection) dealt with religion before.
In fact not many that I read do. Skin Horse lists blood types for its characters, but not religion.
I don't think the strips primary purpose was actually statement on Vanderbeam's religion. Nor his intelligence for that matter. It's not clear, but I don't think he's saying these are statements of fact. It's more of a comment on how he values Beauty above Truth. A view he's shown before. The only reason that the religious context is interesting is how conspicuous it is in its absence elsewhere.
Analysing an evolutionary model of religious memes.
Make your own Papercraft Ceiling Cat (if that's the bible translation you follow).
Seen at Snowking's
