Speculation and revelation
BoingBoing is full of good stuff today. This article by SciFi writer Will Shetterly resonates a lot with me. I attended a very strict Baptist school from 4th-7th grade, also about the same time I started reading Heinlein, LOTR, etc.
(uuworld): Conservative Christians would say that fantasy and science fiction led me astray. I say those stories led me home. They made it possible to read the Bible as if it were a new text, without two thousand years of accreted interpretation by people who wanted me to see what they saw or wanted me to see. Those stories made me a Unitarian who believes that God is in everything. They made me a Universalist who believes that love is available for every living creature. They made me a Christian who believes that heaven is in us all, if we only know how to look. Many writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy will tell you there’s nothing religious or spiritual in these books. As a Unitarian Universalist, I respect their interpretation. But I still take revelation where I find it.
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