Don’t they know the Golden Compass was all about religion?
It seems the god-squad have had a revelation: Mass media can influence people’s opinion. (Gasp! Oooooo ahhhhh!)
The “Symposium on Science Fiction and Christian Filmmaking” will focus on the theology of Science Fiction, analyzing how the worldview conveyed through Sci-Fi films has shaped cultural priorities.
“Sci-Fi movies of the last fifty years have provided America with more than Hollywood entertainment,” Phillips remarked. “The popular genre has been responsible for persuading American thrill-and-chill-seekers that fictional speculation is reality — especially in regard to the creation of the universe, life on earth, and the ‘certainty’ of extraterrestrial life.”
The Symposium will examine this remarkable transformation of fiction into perceived “fact” and explore ways Christian filmmakers can reestablish responsibility in the genre and more carefully and truthfully examine the topics of Creation, time and eternity, the human soul, and the grand potential of science and technology.
This just seems like something that a whole lot of mocking or at the very least jokes about Scientology, but, I’m going to take the high road here (It must be the cold medicine) and instead just state the obvious:
Although, as defined in a modern context, is rather broad and has expanded beyond its original scope, Science Fiction has always had, at its core the concept of speculative writing based on science. Do I have to even write more? It isn’t religious fiction, it’s science fiction.
If they want to promote religious fiction they should go film the bible, write a new testament (worked for the Mormons), or just start from scratch (Scientology.)
Quote from the Christian News Wire . (They have their own news wire? What could possible be news? “Day 721,240, Still no sign of Jesus.”)