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<blockquote data-quote="Alistair_Wonderland" data-source="post: 76420259" data-attributes="member: 408856"><p>The standard of people using his works to strengthen their own non-Christian beliefs is irrelevant, as that happens with literally everything in existence, including the Bible. Personal bias blinds people and makes them see things that aren't there or not see things that are. (For a modern example, take any show where two characters of the same sex so much as look at one another and people assume they're gay.)</p><p></p><p>As for being destructive to the Christian faith, I say the opposite. It might be destructive to the author of that article's idea of what Christianity should be, and I know a lot of people who act like "it isn't Cristian if it isn't explicitly screaming about Jesus and the church culture of my denomination", but God doesn't give a fig about religion and church culture and denominations and all that. Let's face it: we're always villainizing this or that for being against Christian beliefs, when in the end all God said was to believe in Him. We're all on the same side, even if we often forget that. Having a clearly fictional series that does not claim to bear any truth behind its scenarios is a wonderful way to expand one's understanding of God, so long as one recognizes that the content is fiction and more of a way to see another person's opinion on God. And hearing other people's opinions on God is the entire basis of the Church: if we refuse to listen to their opinions on God, we will become locked in our own views, until we fester into a culture of narrow-minded conformity like the Pharisees.</p><p></p><p>Also, anyone who can't take a storybook as nothing more or less than a story really is lacking in imagination. Not everything has to have a message, after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alistair_Wonderland, post: 76420259, member: 408856"] The standard of people using his works to strengthen their own non-Christian beliefs is irrelevant, as that happens with literally everything in existence, including the Bible. Personal bias blinds people and makes them see things that aren't there or not see things that are. (For a modern example, take any show where two characters of the same sex so much as look at one another and people assume they're gay.) As for being destructive to the Christian faith, I say the opposite. It might be destructive to the author of that article's idea of what Christianity should be, and I know a lot of people who act like "it isn't Cristian if it isn't explicitly screaming about Jesus and the church culture of my denomination", but God doesn't give a fig about religion and church culture and denominations and all that. Let's face it: we're always villainizing this or that for being against Christian beliefs, when in the end all God said was to believe in Him. We're all on the same side, even if we often forget that. Having a clearly fictional series that does not claim to bear any truth behind its scenarios is a wonderful way to expand one's understanding of God, so long as one recognizes that the content is fiction and more of a way to see another person's opinion on God. And hearing other people's opinions on God is the entire basis of the Church: if we refuse to listen to their opinions on God, we will become locked in our own views, until we fester into a culture of narrow-minded conformity like the Pharisees. Also, anyone who can't take a storybook as nothing more or less than a story really is lacking in imagination. Not everything has to have a message, after all. [/QUOTE]
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