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Gaiman's American Gods Wins Hugo
H.I. McDonnough writes "Neil Gaiman won this year's Hugo for his novel American Gods.
A much better choice than last year. " If you are a curious, check out the review I did on it.
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When the FUCK do I get my 28 extra glands?
d f If I can't buy drugs in this (snicker) FREE COUNTRY. I' get my brain to make them myslef.
This is why I am planning on spending 28 days in total darkness. http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoom.p
You should give Harry Potter a chance. It's a fun book, with more than a few christian or nearly-christian themes, even if God is a bit absent. But if you refuse to give "Harry Potter" a chance because of its "witchcraft" themes, can you at least be consistent and stay away from Star Wars, Star Trek, American Gods, Babylon 5, everything Asimov wrote, and just about all the other avenues of Science Fiction ever written? They ALL have rather blatant anti-Christian messages, and are filled with blasphemy, aside from a very small minority.
Star Trek anti Christian? I doubt that very much. First off, my pastor loves Star Trek and see's nothing anti christian in it at all. You don't see sex portrayed much in Star Trek and I hope they never go down that line. While I will agree that Star Wars had some witchcraft connotations they are just that....connotations. And with the release of The Phantom Menace and other prequels we find out that Jedi's aren't as mistifying as they seem. There's a scientific reason they can do the things they do....even if it's made up (midichlorians).
Harry Potter is blantant. It comes right out and screams we are witches and worlocks. To me ANY form of that is evil. There's no such thing as a good witch. Now I am not going to go on a witch hunt because the ones who say they are are being fooled by satan.
Most folks into goth and Marilyn Manson have no idea what they are getting into. It is satan worshiping and nothing less. Some say Marilyn Manson is putting on a show and on that note I say your right. But it does not mean he's not committing sins while he's doing that.
Probably the hardest things for non-christians to grasp is how can so and so be a christian and do the things that they do? They can because we are sinners and that's why we needed Jesus to die for our sins. I am not saying they should continue down that path. They should not. We are humans and are of a sinful nature. We are bound to make mistakes. What's bad is when we continue to sin. Then we continue down the path of the Dark Side (or the path to hell...if you don't like a comparison). One of the most interesting books I have read was a comparison of the Jedi to Christians. It was a really compelling book albiet small.
I am not closed minded. I believe that there's one god and there's noone more powerful then him. I cannot accept that there are any more gods than the only god I know.
Telekenesis is not really an indication of god either. You think god is going to come down and make thing levitate to prove he's god? That's laughable in this day and age.
Also, I find it funny that I get marked a troll because I am doing what most people won't. Stating their beliefs in a open forum. Isn't that what we preach or say we should do hear on Slashdot? I can see past dogma. Dogma is nothing more then legalism and it's not what is preached at my church. In my church we can show up in shorts, t-shirts and even jeas or dressed in the finest finery if we'd like. There's no "Dress Code". To some "christians", my church could be considered a group of blasphemers because several of our songs sound like rock and roll never mind that they are praises to god! We believe there's one god. We believe everything we have is there because of him. We believe what is written in the bible, our only mandatory reading. There's no hymnals in our church. There's no catechism classes except bible study. We don't have volume after volume of things that should and should not be done/said/worn in church (like the catholics do). We pray and sing praises to god in anyway we see fit. We don't kneel at certain times in church and we don't say that everyone must stand during praise and worship. We also usually don't try to judge although it is human nature to do this. I don't usually like to get into these things on Slashdot because the sheep that read Slashdot will dock me because I am doing what they claim they support. Stating my opinion and free thoughts. I am not trying to convert Slashdot or cram it down your throat although if someone goes to church because of what I said, praise god! I am just stating that Sci Fi is one thing, fantasy is another. By fantasy I mean dragons, witches and that sort of thing not the fantasy or made up item of faster than light travel. Their should be a clear line between and I usually see a clear line but can agree that often there isn't one. That's just all a part of the fight between good and evil. Not always is it clear to the reader what is what. I am not condeming you if you read Harry Potter. I am saying I will not read it because it's counter to all of my belief system. If that's closed minded, well, so be it. At least I have the guts to try to stick to my beliefs rather then roll over and submit to satan's whims like most folks do.
Gorkman