An Untitled Serious Adventure Drama

[Father Herman]

... its coming, a very real and in depth review and feedback (I'm a theatre fan and a writer myself).

Great! I like a person who will take the time to think.

In the meantime, please introduce yourself to me, give me some background.. I've yet to run across you on here before.

You'll find that here:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-20447.html

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Sort of reminds me of the story of Alice and the Queen of Hearts - with a touch of 1984, "ignorance is bliss" thrown in.

Well, thank you! That's excellent. Except the Queen of Hearts is quite, quite mad.

To be honest - bit too long, bit too boring - sorry.

Are you kidding--it's barely 2000 words. If that's all you can take, imagine having to sit through a full-length film!

Most of the themes are worked to death

Examples, please.

once we've got the role reversal of the fantasy (that its the theists that have the evidence and the atheists that are denying it) there are no suprises.

Actually, there's no "role reversal" here. It's just present-day reality extrapolated 150 years into the future. By then atheism will have retreated to an insular little Queendom protected by strong-arm guards.

I don't get the relevance of the 9.95 gadget at the end.

Ah, the Baloney Detector! These were finally perfected in the late 21st Century. You could pick one up for under $12,000 american (except you'd be paying in Chinese currency). By the mid-22nd century the technology had developed enough so that the price was affordable on a monastic budget.

There were prototypes already in the mid-20th century--for those who had access to well-funded labs. Astronomer Carl Sagan had one in his Baloney Detection Kit. Didn't work very well, tho'. Couldn't detect the baloney in his Baloney Detection Kit.

... the Queen, courtiers et al are nuts.

Not the Queen! The Queen is the only one willing to follow evidence and reason! How nuts is that?

And I've been thinking that Mean Ol' Ikey is pretty sane too. I think he goes into these socratic trances (although everyone just thinks he's nutz). He'll be in a trace at the end of this scene and two of his fellow soldiers (who of course know him well) will take him gently by the arms and escort him off, one on each side. At the crucial half-way point he'll surprise us all by turning out to be very thoughtful and articulate. I'm thinking he'll charge Alienne, Queen of the Atheists with betraying atheism.

H