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To: jalisco555

Of course, if sci-fi is drawing on the ‘War on Terror’, it’s still really drawing on religion—however much we try to avert our eyes from the fact by using euphemisms like ‘the War on Terror’, the war between the West and Islam is a religious war.


4 posted on 03/27/2009 5:46:10 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
Of course, if sci-fi is drawing on the ‘War on Terror’, it’s still really drawing on religion—however much we try to avert our eyes from the fact by using euphemisms like ‘the War on Terror’, the war between the West and Islam is a religious war.

As is the human-Cylon war on BSG, which draws very much from current events.

7 posted on 03/27/2009 5:50:13 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: The_Reader_David

Thank you!


21 posted on 03/27/2009 6:23:12 AM PDT by Vor Lady (Viva la Revolution!)
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