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Fiction, enrages those engaging in religion, in fiction made real. Cause if tolkien could create LOTR, then the bible could be written by a nerd in the dessert,

Fiction, enrages those engaging in religion, in fiction made real. Cause if tolkien could create LOTR, then the bible could be written by a nerd in the dessert, thousand years ago and all that remains of god is the Greatest Octalsided Dice. So no wonder fiction also enrages believers in societal fiction.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Fiction, enrages those engaging in religion Only rather particular approaches to religion. Given the popularity of religion throughout history, fiction would basically be nonexistent if it had that effect on the religious generally. > Cause if tolkien could create LOTR Tolkien was religious.
- matkoniecz 5y ago
  Also, for example the Bible has multiple short explicitly fictional stories embedded within. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
- mLuby 5y ago
  >> Cause if tolkien could create LOTR > Tolkien was religious. More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis), and his mythos reflects that: [x] The one true God who is good created all things including evil and gave humans the "gift of mortality." [x] The most powerful angel rebels against God, and this great enemy seeks to corrupt the world and its creatures. [x] A partially human hero is the first to return from beyond and by doing so overthrows the great enemy. I also find it interesting that while the Orcs in Tolkien's world are evil, he wouldn't go so far as calling them irredeemable.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis), Lewis was Anglican, not Catholic.
    - mLuby 5y ago
      Oh you're right, thanks!

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Fiction, enrages those engaging in religion Only rather particular approaches to religion. Given the popularity of religion throughout history, fiction would basically be nonexistent if it had that effect on the religious generally. > Cause if tolkien could create LOTR Tolkien was religious.

matkoniecz 5y ago
Also, for example the Bible has multiple short explicitly fictional stories embedded within. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
mLuby 5y ago
>> Cause if tolkien could create LOTR > Tolkien was religious. More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis), and his mythos reflects that: [x] The one true God who is good created all things including evil and gave humans the "gift of mortality." [x] The most powerful angel rebels against God, and this great enemy seeks to corrupt the world and its creatures. [x] A partially human hero is the first to return from beyond and by doing so overthrows the great enemy. I also find it interesting that while the Orcs in Tolkien's world are evil, he wouldn't go so far as calling them irredeemable.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis), Lewis was Anglican, not Catholic.
  - mLuby 5y ago
    Oh you're right, thanks!