Just saw a tweet that essentially went 'scifi should be secular' and not only is that the whitest take (yes he was) it's also incredibly fucking boring. Think of the things you could do with religion +scifi. How would taoists/buddhists burn joss sticks and joss paper in space? -
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Electronic joss paper? Holographic ancestral offerings? Great big floating crematoriums? To say nothing of the character journeys you could write using religion and faith. Tbh the future will never be secular as long as there are humans. We're too imaginative lmao
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Also implying religion is "backward" and incompatible with the future is also a hell of a fucking take my guy. I'm barely religious anymore but I know it's important to so many and tbh so many ideas can be explored through religion and faith in fiction.
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that said institutionalised religion will always end in some kind of oppressive framework so um just watch out with that (or explore it in scifi writing!!!)
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Replying to @hellenus
All my experience with religion has been negative so I can see why someone would want less of it, but fiction is the best place to explore it. One of my favorite books is all about a twisted version of afterlife.
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel @hellenus
fiction is totally the way to explore the positive aspects of faith too!
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Absolutely! Maybe I should have said "warped" or "modified" as it wasn't all negative, just a different take on it.
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