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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There's a sci-fi book series called Hyperion where one of the main fucuses of the far-future theocratic government is to search for signs and symbolism of Jesus on other planets. Since if you find an alien species worshipping Jesus or using cross symbolism, you've all but proven that God exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Or aliens copied 3rd century Rome.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You will prove that one god exists?

Or even less, you will prove that someone with god-like powers exists?

Or even less, you will prove tat we live in a simulation written by some christian sect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

If all successful civilizations believe in something isomorphic to the Pythagorean theorem, then this is evidence that it’s real.

God works the same way.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, Jesus claimed to be God and the only God at that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be exact, it was a few centuries later that people told that about him, before it was written down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Will be reading this if you think it’s worth it.

I’m a huge fan of classic sci-fi (Asimov, Heinlein). How does it hold up?

And before someone eats me alive about Heinlein, I’ve heard it all. Been a fan since I was a kid and the ideological side of it doesn’t matter to me as much as the stories these days. I’m an atheist because of authors like him. I wouldn’t take it back for anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The first book is phenomenal. The others are good, but not necessarily "must read"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Strange to me to our Asimov and Heinlein in the same genre. That’s like when I start Spotify Radio from Cheryl Crow and get Metallica and Green Day because Spotify thinks I’m looking for “90s music”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They’re both definitely scfi and I have enjoyed all that I have read of them.

I will say, I haven’t read a lot of them since I was a teenager and I’m old now.

Still though, robots, moon people, mars people, dude being thrown from universe to universe.

It’s pretty clear to me why it’s the same genre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It's like The Canterbury Tales in space. It's four books, but the first one stands on its own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

If you like old school scifi you'll probably like it. It's a grand opera. Prolog to the first book is online here:

https://read.amazon.com/sample/B004G60EHS?f=1&l=en_US&r=eec1d4a1&rid=348SM72J0X8RWTFKS1BG&sid=136-6887572-5455735&cid=ANAROXL46XMJT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hyperion was a fun read. Definitely recommend. I had a small book club and it was fun to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"This is my blood" was actually a miscommunication, he meant that the cup he was holding was his and it was full of blood he didn't want to share.