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Title: Re: C.S. Lewis Trilogy
Article-I.D.: inuxd.158
Posted: Fri Sep 17 15:03:09 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 08:07:06 1982
References: burdvax.162

It always comes as a surprise to me that organizaed religion has any--
repeat, any--influence on life today, especially in the enjoyment of
speculative literature.  Have we not outgrown the childishness that
requires us to accept the hoary stories from the past as literal truth?
If there were a Christ today, he'd be spinning SF tales and rejecting the
old, outworn dogmas of thousands of years ago, in the same manner as the
Christ told stories to illustrate his radical new beliefs.  He als
rejected the accepted religions of his day and preached a new way of life.
Why not take that attitude, and then speculate on new religions that will
follow those failures of today--such a failure as Marxism, for example,
that must be a religion, since it has no basis otherwise.
--Arlan Andrews, BTL--Indy.