I was thinking the other day about why some religous people feel the need to
object to SF.
Sometimes, just to be fair, it could well be justified. In my collection I
own several books that some would consider blasphemous or at the very least
ungodly.
The well of souls series by Jack Chalker._
The universe is in fact controlled by a giant supercomputer, and the first
book contains certain revelations about god. A very good book actually, not
done offensively, just some would consider
what it does to be enough.
To REEALLY offend, you couldn't do better than James Morrow.
A review of one of his books states
"This man would not survive three sentences in Iraq"
This is The Way the World Ends, The wine of violence, The Continent of lies,
and The city of Truth
are all fairly mild. Only City of Truth even slightly pokes directly at the
church, Wine of violence merely contains a communion like ritual used to
inspire non-violent people to fight in a war.
Once he gets onto the subject as his major plotline however...
Only Begotten Daughter-
A jewish lighthouse keeper called Murray makes a highly unusual sperm donation
one day. God has decided to play mother this time round. Unfortunately, god
doesn't talk to his latest child so she accepts a ride from the devil into
hell to avoid causing a new religion. Here she meets her older brother. This
book does have a wonderful way of earning damnation, - If someone else thinks
you deserve it, you go down. This gets every human who ever existed.
Towing Jehovah
God has committed suicide. His body is floating in the north Atlantic, a
menace to faith and navigation. It must be god's body, it's 2 miles long and
has no bellybutton. And anyway the heavenly host who are dying off very
quickly from sympathetic death syndrome have hired an oil tanker captain to
tow the body to the north pole. This book is possibly the kindest to god of
his religion based books.
This is despitre the crew's realization after running out of food that they
are towing 2 miles of meat behind them. This particular chapter contains
several recipes.
Blameless in Abbadon
This is a sequel to Towing Jehovah. A man dying of cancer puts the corpse of
god on trial for the existence of evil. The er um highpoint of the book is a
tour through the brain of god where they meet several saints, and biblical
characters. These include the colossally perverted Saint Augustine of Hippo,
Lot, his pregnant daughters and his transformed wife. He still takes her with
him because he's drilled a hole in a position he can use, seeing as his
daughters have lost interest, and besides, shes very useful when it comes to
salting margheritas.
Extremely well written and funny books, just leave whatever religous
sensitivities you've got behind when you read them.
Chris
.........................................................
'Sift and slime, lemon lime,' the computer replied.
'Tap that toenail one more time'
There was nothing I could add to that so I left the bridge.
object to SF.
Sometimes, just to be fair, it could well be justified. In my collection I
own several books that some would consider blasphemous or at the very least
ungodly.
The well of souls series by Jack Chalker._
The universe is in fact controlled by a giant supercomputer, and the first
book contains certain revelations about god. A very good book actually, not
done offensively, just some would consider
what it does to be enough.
To REEALLY offend, you couldn't do better than James Morrow.
A review of one of his books states
"This man would not survive three sentences in Iraq"
This is The Way the World Ends, The wine of violence, The Continent of lies,
and The city of Truth
are all fairly mild. Only City of Truth even slightly pokes directly at the
church, Wine of violence merely contains a communion like ritual used to
inspire non-violent people to fight in a war.
Once he gets onto the subject as his major plotline however...
Only Begotten Daughter-
A jewish lighthouse keeper called Murray makes a highly unusual sperm donation
one day. God has decided to play mother this time round. Unfortunately, god
doesn't talk to his latest child so she accepts a ride from the devil into
hell to avoid causing a new religion. Here she meets her older brother. This
book does have a wonderful way of earning damnation, - If someone else thinks
you deserve it, you go down. This gets every human who ever existed.
Towing Jehovah
God has committed suicide. His body is floating in the north Atlantic, a
menace to faith and navigation. It must be god's body, it's 2 miles long and
has no bellybutton. And anyway the heavenly host who are dying off very
quickly from sympathetic death syndrome have hired an oil tanker captain to
tow the body to the north pole. This book is possibly the kindest to god of
his religion based books.
This is despitre the crew's realization after running out of food that they
are towing 2 miles of meat behind them. This particular chapter contains
several recipes.
Blameless in Abbadon
This is a sequel to Towing Jehovah. A man dying of cancer puts the corpse of
god on trial for the existence of evil. The er um highpoint of the book is a
tour through the brain of god where they meet several saints, and biblical
characters. These include the colossally perverted Saint Augustine of Hippo,
Lot, his pregnant daughters and his transformed wife. He still takes her with
him because he's drilled a hole in a position he can use, seeing as his
daughters have lost interest, and besides, shes very useful when it comes to
salting margheritas.
Extremely well written and funny books, just leave whatever religous
sensitivities you've got behind when you read them.
Chris
.........................................................
'Sift and slime, lemon lime,' the computer replied.
'Tap that toenail one more time'
There was nothing I could add to that so I left the bridge.