tularosa  01/30/10        Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. —Mere Christianity I picked up a book by C.S Lewis titled THE ABOLITION OF MAN (1943) and I put this quote in from another of his books because I have been writing about religion and reality. It is also interesting that he wrote science fiction and fantasy. Frankly, some of this book was hard to understand but one section on how nature could not be controlled by man was interesting. He explains that usually our attempts to control nature lead to men controlling other men. Then I read parts of BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (1930sabout a future world where men manipulate human embryos.

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