Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Haynes.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA From: Haynes.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: A Case of Conscience Message-ID: <2861@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 12:19:09 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2861 Posted: Thu Jul 7 12:19:09 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jul-83 00:54:28 EDT Lines: 16 I don't agree with your plot analysis of "A Case of Conscience". You claim that Ruiz-Sanchez decides that the Lithians are in a "state of sin" because they have "no sense of good or evil". This isn't quite the case. Ruiz-Sanchez' reasons are much more complex. One of his reasons is that they live a perfectly moral life by force of reason. But nothing so simplistic as a lack of the sense of good and evil. He is a Jesuit after all. He concludes that the Lithians are not "in a state of sin" but rather CREATIONS of the devil. This is rank heresy (the heresy of Manichaenism). What he does about it and what happens makes for a truly interesting and thought provoking story on the nature of faith and reality. -- Charles PS. His Black Easter is pretty scary too. Can anyone tell me where I can find "Dr. Mirabilis"?