Status Updates From The Gospel according to Sci...

Many of our more conservative religious leaders preach the fear of the future. Faith, after all, ought to be dynamic and fluid, not rigid and stagnant.

This struggle against death is what makes us truly human. Many SF stories combine this innate desire with the possibility of technology to grant us literal immortality.

we must establish a relationship with God that enables communication rather than simple awe.

Without losing the awe, I might add.

The fullest expression of what it means to be a human being is the imitation of God.

In his Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius explains this concept: “What we should rightly call eternal is that which grasps and possesses wholly and simultaneously the fulness of unending life, which lacks naught of the future, and has lost naught of the fleeting past; and such an existence must be ever present in itself to control and aid itself.

Evil is conformity. Love requires recognizing uniqueness.

As science uncovers more about the vastness of our universe, our understanding of God must also expand. God, to be God, cannot simply be the lord of our world as we experience it in our everyday lives. A transcendent deity, creator of the entire universe, must be a vast enough God to encompass galaxies, black holes, the smallest subatomic particles, the infinite vacuum of space.

many of our more conservative religious leaders preach the fear of the future,

Does not compute. And yet, as religious leader to myself, I preach fear of the future all the time.

What science fiction does is to naturalize extra ordinary occurrences, turning potential grace experiences into science-like puzzles, where the normal reaction is to search for a solution rather than be awestruck and suspect the presence of the divine. — Albert J. Bergesen, God in the Movies

interesting book. some of the works cited I hadn't heard of.

My reading list is getting bigger for sci-fi. I already had H.P. Lovecraft on my reading list before but I've never heard of Shiva 3000, sounds fucking awesome too!