[marktwain]

Science fiction is mostly a substitute for God.

Either it postulated man as god, or aliens with powers far beyond man's (God substitute).

Much of the point of science fiction is to create imaginary realities where there is no God, thus conditioning people into the idea, away from the traditional religious thought.

There is hardly any science fiction in which Christianity plays a substantial part, except to be ridiculed.

[MHGinTN]

I’m in the process of finishing a book/novel of that Christian flavor, dealing with Aliens and Angels.

[GingisK]

Science fiction is mostly a substitute for God.

This is one of the stupidest statements I have seen in decades.

It is in the same class as "If English is good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for anyone".

[jonrick46]

Actually science fiction belongs to the romance genre of literature. The first modern science fiction novel was written by Mary Shelly. Frankenstein was born out of an effort by other romantic poets, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley (her future husband) and the physician John Polidori to outdo each other writing a ghost story on a gloomy night on Lake Geneva. Romantics believe that the transcendental nature of God is present in all of his creation.