ARGH. It makes me furious that "Christian" fiction mostly consists of truly awful writing. WHY? Where are the C.S. Lewises and G.K. Chestertons of today?
Actually, johncwright. Though, some of his fiction was written before his conversion, this brilliant, controversial, hilarious, human, flawed writer of genius is equally delightful in sci-fi, fantasy, politics, and apologetics.
I wouldn't call John C. Wright johncwright a writer of genius, but he does write interesting stuff.
I don't like him as a person; he's a climate-change skeptic and won't listen to anyone who tries to tell him the truth. He argues like a lawyer... because he is a lawyer.
I wouldn't like to engage him in debate in person, I suspect, but just because we disagree about something doesn't make him any less of a smart guy. Only a very astute person would write The Golden Age, I think. :)
(I too was a climate-change skeptic until very recently, mostly because all the reporting on it used language that I knew very well was unscientific--we've had catastrophic climate change occur on this planet before, and it usually seems to have been due to natural causes or disasters. We don't have enough data in recorded history to make unqualified statements about cause and effect on that scale. Scientists, of course, never claimed such infallibility. Too bad the media has to be such scare-mongers, rather than reporting the plain, actual news.)
ARGH. It makes me furious that "Christian" fiction mostly consists of truly awful writing. WHY? Where are the C.S. Lewises and G.K. Chestertons of today?
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I don't like him as a person; he's a climate-change skeptic and won't listen to anyone who tries to tell him the truth. He argues like a lawyer... because he is a lawyer.
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(I too was a climate-change skeptic until very recently, mostly because all the reporting on it used language that I knew very well was unscientific--we've had catastrophic climate change occur on this planet before, and it usually seems to have been due to natural causes or disasters. We don't have enough data in recorded history to make unqualified statements about cause and effect on that scale. Scientists, of course, never claimed such infallibility. Too bad the media has to be such scare-mongers, rather than reporting the plain, actual news.)
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