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cdaveThe 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
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 03:59 pm (UTC)Not too keen on the first few F-Cords. I'll check back in a while, and see if it grows on me.
I've got the Chex history book, and sketch editions of the two starslip collections, and the chainsaw suit one.
Oh, and I made some fan AAAAAAAAART!
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Date: 2008-10-09 05:17 pm (UTC)sorry I haven't replied to your email - I have only just remembered. Is there any chance I could scrap climbing on Saturday morning. I have got 100000000000000000000000000000000000003 things to do on Saturday including packing for my holiday the following Friday - I think i'll just stress myself out (more) if not - i'll sort something out for when I come back though.
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Date: 2008-10-10 03:10 pm (UTC)I had this somewhat-elaborate joke regarding sci-fi and religion that I don't think I'll actually use in Starslip.
My brother and I watched a lot of Star Trek: TOS. That show, being a product of the 1960s, went out of its way to make the viewer feel comfortable with what's supposed to be the far future. Kirk and Bones crack wise to Mr. Spock, the girls wear miniskirts, etc. It's a very familiar and comfortable future -- but it's still the future, so surely there would be SOME differences we 20th Century guys would feel weird about.
So the joke was, after the episode has wound down and they're all musing on the bridge, the exchange goes like this:
Kirk. I guess you could say we taught them a little something about... being human.
Spock. I fail to see the necessity of that lesson, Captain.
Bones. Of course YOU would, you green-blooded Vulcan!
Kirk. Mr. Spock, I suspect we'll make a human out of you yet!
(KIRK and BONES laugh)
Kirk. Now let us give thanks and offer praise to our god, Zanzo.
(Immediately discordant organ music starts playing, and the entire crew of the Enterprise starts making jarring robot-like gyrations and ululating.)
So Zanzo (Zanzism?) was going to be the Starslip-official religion of man in the future, but it seems too much like a comment on religion being dumb. If Vanderbeam practices something we'd never get to see it anyway.
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Date: 2008-10-14 12:57 pm (UTC)It's been said about that Discworld, that it's a funhouse mirror of our world, but also world in it's own right.
Almost anything that happens in strip like Starslip would be seen as comment on the corresponding thing from our world, rather than just trying to give the characters soon history.