Wait, why don't we ALL use "le pirate de l'air"?

Right! DEFINITELY no aliens! [Knowing wink, Illuminati hand sign]

Most of what I can add has already been said, but I just wanted to say this was a great article, and that I've really enjoyed Cold War Week. Спасибо большое! Слава АV Club!

I'm thinking he'd take "Sweet Child O' Mine".

I like the phrase "Team Jesus" to describe this approach to Christianity. You know, the people who have sweatshirts and bumper stickers and coffee mugs and dog sweaters that say, "Proud to be a Christian!" or "I <3 Jesus!" in the same way that other people have ones that say, "Proud to be a Pistons fan!" or "I <3 Red…

Oh, cool, thank you!

It's actually different than that (the fact that it's unclear unless you read the appendices is possibly a point in the original comment's favor):

Upvoted for the Miles Teg love.

I enjoy both the movie and all of the Dune books, but that enjoyment doesn't extend to much of their ideas on sex and gender. Frank Herbert was unaccepting of homosexuality to the point he estranged himself from his second son, who was openly gay and an LGBT activist. The conversation in God Emperor of Dune about the…

Yeah, the idea is that they have taken in so much spice over their elongated lifespans that it has deformed their bodies.

NERD PEDANTRY: The navigators just plot a safe passage through folded space, while the ships' Holtzmann drives actually do the folding and the travelling. They needed to train navigators to do it after they rejected the AIs who used to pilot the ships.

What, you don't think a giant worm discussing infinity, pharaohs, and gender to a rotating cast is blockbuster material? I'd bet no less than $500 million domestic US, $1.7 billion worldwide.

If you want an adventure story, read the first one.
If you want a deconstruction of messiahs, read the first three.
If you want a deconstruction of messiahs and a book that summarizes the philosophy, read the first four.
If you also want a weird, more than slightly unhinged epic that discusses memory and sex and what it…

NEED.

Back when he was in middle school, Coma the Doof Warrior was assigned to read a "modern fairy-tale," which had to be approved by the teacher. So, I went to my English teacher after class and said, "I'm already reading Dune, and it has a lot of fantasy things like Dukes and princes and swordfights, so could I do that…

There's a lot of vowel shifts in the Arabic and Persian words he uses in the book, too.

A lot of the crazier Christians I know seem to come to their beliefs by waiting until you express some sort of value judgement, saying, "Well, actually…," and then defending the exact opposite with a random Bible quote taken out of context.. So they end up with even more nonsensical contradictions than normal.

You joke, but there are some crazy types who are vehemently opposed to organ donation specifically because they fear that the organs will get ripped out of a living person when the faithful are resurrected body and soul.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Or honestly, it should Czaritsa/Tsaritsa.