| Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| wilderness |
Here are some books and authors' quotes that I am finding slightly interesting. Feel free to investigate further as it can be quite easy to misunderstand them:
"As I've always understood them, and as I try to convey them in my comic book, the stories in the Bible are less significant because they happened at some moment in history than because their underlying dynamics seem to be happening in all moments. We are all Cain, struggling with our feelings about a sibling who seems to be more blessed than we are. We are always escaping the enslaved mentality of Egypt and the idolatry we practiced there. We are all Mordechai, bristling against the pressure to bow in subservience to our bosses." DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, rushkoff.com
"[Lucifer is told] that if he were to kill Yahweh, it would destroy him too. [He] replies that this is precisely the problem: there isn't anywhere he can go to be free of that influence, because Yahweh's thumb print is on the whole of Creation. 'There's nowhere I can go where I won't meet him.' Okay, this is a special case, but the anguish and frustration that he's voicing... well, it ought to strike a chord for us, too. It's the complaint of a contingent being who wants to be absolute." MIKE CAREY, SFsite.com
"..by insisting we 'believe' that the Bible happened at some moment in distant history, the keepers of religion prevent us from realizing that the Bible is happening right now, in every moment. The narrative and its power transcend time." DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, forbiddenplanet blog
"Christianity has become so targeted over the last forty years that I actually think it's more interesting to defend it and possibly explore what's made it such a potent force in the world for the last twenty centuries ... I wanted to do a series of books where I extended the storyline and wrapped everything up in a logical conclusion that was as relevant to the modern world as the New Testament was two thousand years ago." .MIKE MILLAR, SilverBulletComicBooks.com |
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