Watch out for loose seal!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. did exactly that and it’s a really awesome movie but didn’t do well.

We’ve been measuring it for 60 years. On a global timeline that is a speck. Why are we assuming it’s always done that and always will?

Praying isn’t a thing atheists tend to do. Hoping that people wise up and discard their Iron Age fairy tales, on the other hand, is simply consistent.

So do they cut off the heads of infidels with laser swords in space?

C.S. Lewis wrote Christian sci-fi, and as I recall, was quite well regarded for it. There’s most certainly plenty of material in the Christian culture to be used in a sci-fi setting by a sufficiently clever author. Ofcourse there’s a vast gulf between “sci-fi that explores the the ideas of a religion” and “religious…

My thoughts exactly. Fuck that shit.

It’s hard to be nice when being called an asshole btw.

Oh please. We encounter religion every day, all day long, in casual situations everywhere. It is forced on some of us in school, at work, and in our communities. You knowingly encounter an atheist how often? Once every other month, maybe, depending on what part of the country you live in and what kind of life you…

“Praying”, no. More like wishful thinking.

You’re right he should have been more diplomatic about the merits of his logic.

I look forward to the day when “Islamic sci-fi” is considered by sites like io9 just as ridiculous as “Christian sci-fi” or “Mormon sci-fi”.

You mean like how io9 shames anti vaccers? or how liberals in general shame climate change deniers and creationists?

I look forward to the day when ppl can believe whatever they want without someone like yourself shaming them for it.

we are a pleasure seeking, pain avoiding species...we don’t have free will, we have neurochemical reactions that pretend to have free will

Not going to happen, as much as we both believe it should.

Exactly

I look forward to the day no religion matters anymore, because humanity finally pulled its head out of the sand admitted that gods are just fairy tales. Fingers crossed I live long enough to see it.

He was cut from the book at the last second. To make a long story short, Gaiman stated that American Jesus is basically that universe’s version of Steven Spielberg - a rich, visionary Hollywood type living in Beverly Hills too well off to care about the squabbles of the lesser Gods in America. The original Jesus still…

Yeah there are a lot of things that go against the idea that Elliot and Tyrell are the same person unless we are to assume a lot more stuff has been a result of Elliot’s delusions.