Comments | bensanaz: BeauSeigneur wasted a good start

bensanaz

BeauSeigneur wasted a good start

Dec 01, 2009 11:26

So as some folks know I started in on the "Christ Clone Trilogy" on the basis that I had heard it was a decent science-fiction treatment of the premises of Left Behind (about which I have been reading this excellent blog) and it was off to a good start. The leadup of the events is considerably more plausible than LB, the characters come off as ( Read more... )

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furikku December 1 2009, 14:59:19 UTC

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ugh. >:(

kouaidou December 1 2009, 18:03:08 UTC

That sucks the serious balls. Do you think it's intentional propaganda or just lazy writing/research?

bensanaz December 1 2009, 22:20:47 UTC

What seems most likely to me is that the author didn't bother doing any research about Jews who aren't "Messianic Jews" (that is, Jews for Jesus) and took everything they had to say about the history and interpretation of Judaism at face value. It's just that given the amount of research he did about technology, science, and geopolitics, it's disappointing that the religious beliefs of his major characters (a major driving force) were handled so lazily.

Incidentally, a little poking around online indicates that BeauSeigneur has a PhD in political science from UT Knoxville, which is probably why he at least has a better sense of how the world outside his personal circle works than L&J do. It's just depressing and angering that even with this he is apparently unable to imagine how non-Christians react to events on a personal level.

imperatorr December 1 2009, 23:31:19 UTC

That is a shame. Reading his interview he seemed a lot less wingnutty than most Rapture-evangelicals.

bensanaz December 2 2009, 00:10:08 UTC

Well, he is in that he understands how the UN actually works, his geopolitical moves have believable motivations behind them (mostly - you still have to accept the existence of a conspiracy of old-guard would-be world-conquering Communists within the Russian government, but at least that's better than NUKES FOR NO REASON), his skeptic intellectuals actually behave skeptic and analytical, and so forth.

On the other hand, he takes as premise that non-Messianic Jews are either self-deceiving or (presumably maliciously) deceived by their rabbis, which.. yeah, fuck that.