2 hours ago · Culture · 0 comments

One season into ST:DS9 and am trying to decide whether to continue. The season concluded with the straightforward message that Science is Good Traditional Religion is Evil (because Intolerant) Revisionist Religion is … Acceptable And it seems to promise more of the same. Also: it’s not exactly subtle to have your representative of Traditional Religion played by an actor (Louise Fletcher) known only for playing one of the most monstrous characters in the history of cinema. I once wrote that Philip Pullman created an imaginary world so that people he hated would have a place to be evil in — I could also have said as much about The Handmaid’s Tale — and I suspect that the same thing is happening here. I’m just so tired of it: the beats over and over and over again. After half a century of this crap I just want a different critique of religion. I’m not asking for friends, just for more interesting and reflective haters.

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