On May 24, 2005, at 1:37 AM, David Land wrote:
"It’s one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real
person who claimed divine revelation, but it’s something else entirely
to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know
was made up by a very nonprophetic human being."
"It’s a terrible thing, I suppose, for a writer to invent a religion
and then discover that he and all his friends are on the wrong side of
it."
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/167/story_16700_1.html
Heh, quoth the Card:
"As a religion, the Force is just the sort of thing you’d expect a
liberal-minded teenage kid to invent."
As opposed to Mormonism, which was invented by a conservative-minded
teenaged kid, and therefore is True.
OSC has absolutely no business critiquing anyone else's religion or
philosophy. Not when he believes in golden plates translated by dint of
magic goggles.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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