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The Shack...which you liked was very preachy.
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The Shack...which you liked was very preachy.
I liked certain aspects of "The Shack," but overall it was way too fundamentalist for me.
I liked the portrayal of God as a motherly woman cooking pancakes at the stove, and I liked the author's recognition that troubled relationships with God can stem from troubled relationships (or abandonment issues) with one's earthly father.
I liked the way God--in all three persons--related to the grieving father in such an informal, conversational, gentle way.
But it's not on my top ten list of spiritual classics. Like most fundamentalist books, it had the intellectual content of a Dick and Jane reader.
I've read The Handmaid's Tale several times and I don't think it's anti-Christianity. I think it's anti-fundamentalism. I think it exposes the lenghts to which people will go to get their ideologies or religions to fit their worldview. I've always thought this was very clear yet plenty of people disagree with me and say the book is blatantly anti-Christian, so apparently even the clearest message can get muddled up.
When people bring up morality and literature in one sentence, I always think of Nabokov, and how much he detested being put into a box, being read from an ideologic or moralistic point of view. He wrote literature for literature's sake, which was more than enough, it was everything.Or one of my other favorites, Lolita, which is about a paedophile describing his love for a child, yet in no way do you walk away with the message that paedophilia is okay.
That sure is annoying. I hate mediocrity and lack of intelligence.What I mean by mass produced is the majority of them out there creating things our of ego instead of creativity & actual talent. They are trying to produce what they consider edgy or offensive for all the wrong reasons.
Precisely. But the ability to criticize is one that I value.Why would you critcize God in a perfect world?
I think so, yes.Thats like saying we need evil to determine what is good.
Well that's a difference between you and me then.I don't see how an imperfect world could be any more interesting than a perfect one where everything would be limitless.
That sure is annoying. I hate mediocrity and lack of intelligence.
Precisely. But the ability to criticize is one that I value.
I think so, yes.
You bet it is. I don't find constant states of angst all that attractive or interesting. But thats just me.Well that's a difference between you and me then.