Brian Eshleman’s Reviews > The Gospel according to Science Fiction: From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier > Status Update

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.