You're banned for monopolizing the conversation in a particularly graceless and bad-mannered way. (I don't mind folks disagreeing with me or pointing out I'm wrong: I do mind persistent rudeness.)
Feel free to hang out on other discussions here, but leave this one alone. Your subsequent postings on this thread will be deleted from now on. (If not by me, then by a co-moderator.)
]]>One way to deal with the difference between dogma and belief while keeping the story a fantasy rather than an airport thriller is to use the old trick that the believers create the god with the power of their belief. So we don't have to pay attention to the maunderings of theologians; god has the characteristics and powers that the majority of worshippers believe in. Much to the chagrin of the priests, I suspect.
]]>If he then found the theology didn't fit, and if that meant the story didn't work, and he still wanted to write it, he would, presumably, rejig the story - it could be done, as has been pointed out above. I imagine this must happen all the time.
But he doesn't want to do that. He doesn't want to write this story. It's only an idea, not even an outline, still less a draft. So it doesn't have to be "right" in any sense at all.
For my part, as a Christian, churchwarden, married to a priest - I would love to read this, if Charlie wanted to write it. Wading through this thread, I can though see a few reasons though why he might not.
]]>Owlmirror @ 190 "Church doctrine is relatively cautious, even cagey, in what it actually claims about anything. Doubletalk is constant." Yes, well, what did you expect?
erald @ 205 Witches. Bollocks. Sprenger u Kramer, authors of Malleus Maleficarum were catholics, Kramer was an inquisitor.
"NSDAP" (Godwin apart) erm, Adolf was a good catholic. I've already posted the seriously vile link, twice this week ... oops
So, you are a far off-beam as Davy, though much more polite about it.
]]>Because I posted this blog entry right before I buggered off on a three-day road trip, visiting family, with limited ability to hole up and moderate. And in particular, Davy kicked off while I was spending time with elderly relatives and no computer. I am now back home.
]]>That's not so surprising; I'd expect that during a war unit cohesion and trust in your comrades would be quite high, and not particularly affected by inconsequential differences like sexual orientation. In peacetime, when you're more concerned about your sergeant's mood than about enemy fire, I could see it becoming more of a problem.
]]>@ 235 "Bonding" in severe fighting. Try reading the late John Masters' accounts of fighting the Japanese all the way from Kohima to their surrender.
]]>Uncomfortably close to "Nineteen Eight-Four".
Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia.
]]>Sure there is. In a non-theocratically-governed society we can ignore theology if we choose and not be harmed. Try ignoring tax law (unless you have a hell of a lot of money for tax lawyers) and see how that works for you. As a citizen of the US I can call bullshit on the Pope and nobody will come to take me away; calling bullshit on the president should have the same effect, but, depending on the president and my local police, it may not (the Patriot Act, among other things, gives the president legal powers he really shouldn't have).
]]>"body lift guide" at 264 (repeats post 244)
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