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Re: The Assembly
by Monolycus on Sep 12, 2003 - 03:17 PM
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While I can easily see Augustine or Thomas á Becket buying humanity another couple of thousand years with a prolonged filibuster, and they would certainly fit the bill of being peculiar to Christianity, I did not use the saints for two reasons. The first reason is that there is some question as to the degree to which beatification and canonization approach what we would think of as apotheosis. This question keeps the Catholic faiths from having to deal with the stigma of being called polytheistic (the theological equivalent of an R-rating... not necessarily death in itself, but it cuts significantly into your box-office take). I'm sure Arthegarn would have called me on it if I were to have tried such a thing.
Secondly, and more importantly, as I outlined to DK above (it's buried somewhere under the heading "God-Forsaken Answer"), it was expedient for my literary purposes to leave Christianity unrepresented. The Christianity I had in mind as being the most problematic is the extremely militant, right-wing version that is almost exclusively Protestant, North American and practically inseparable from its fundamental inconsistencies and intolerances. They are by no means alone in these attitudes, but they represent a reductio ad absurdum of the kinds of faults I wanted to illustrate and were, therefore, a really easy target.
~M.
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