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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
March 31, 2025 at 11:51 am
One the flip side there are some truly great works of literature that were not only by Christian authors, but rely heavily on Christian allegory.
Just as I won’t condemn a religious-themed work, I won’t praise a book simply because it’s anti-religion.
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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
March 31, 2025 at 12:08 pm
Does anyone else have the 'Different Strokes' theme in their head?
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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 pm
Any book that speaks the truth speaks against religion and thus destroys faith.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
March 31, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Welcome, Sara, I hope you like it here. I'm a sucker for a good horror novel, especially one that sounds Lovecraftian. I think I'll look into Insane Entities, at least.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.