(urth) The Wizard

[Antonin Scriabin]

"I do agree that this subject continually teeters on the brink of being
off-topic in
a Wolfe forum and might be something of a dead horse."

I tend to agree with this.  The topic of the thread is *The Wizard*, and
has turned into (again) a discussion of whether or not the Sun Cycle takes
place in a "Christian" universe.  While that might be an interesting
subject in its own right, it is a bit off-topic, and when it starts turning
into disagreements about the OT and personal religious beliefs, I start
losing interest entirely.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> >Daniel Petersen: I hope maybe what I (and some others) have said can
> >help at least some people think twice before they make sweeping Dawkinsian
> >generalisations about these matters based on utterly unsophisticated
> >readings of OT/NT.,,,All of this is very relevant to Wolfe's fiction also
> in
> >regard to allowing a text to do what it does rather than reading so much
> of
> >one's own agenda into it so as to mangle it.
>
> Heh. Thanks for a very well written post Daniel. We haven't interacted in
> here
> all that much so I can forgive you for mistaking me for some militant
> atheist
> with an agenda like Richard Dawkins. I happen to think of Dawkins as a
> brilliant
> populist theoretical biologist and a short-sighted, prejudiced fool in his
> outspoken hateful views on religion. My own views are generally the
> opposite of
> his.
>
> The idea of proving my "sophistication" in understanding the Bible seems a
> bit
> distasteful. Must different imply inferior?  Perhaps I will only mention
> that you,
> yourself, seem to have an agenda which makes it difficult for you to read
> the
> Bible in any manner which could present God in a "bad" light. I wouldn't
> call that
> view of the Bible "unsophisticated" but I think it is fair to consider it
> colored
> a bit.
>
> (FWIW, I personally agree with Dan'l, et al. that the brutality depicted
> in the OT
> and the human emotions and motivations attributed to the deity reflect
> more on
> the people and culture of the times, than on God, Himself)
>
> I do agree that this subject continually teeters on the brink of being
> off-topic in
> a Wolfe forum and might be something of a dead horse. I don't think I have
> anything
> further to add, though I get the impression Gerry Quinn might still want
> to go
> on discussing a bit.
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