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Skriven 2007-08-09 16:15:20 av Matt Ion (3443.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 16962 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (3439.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Lost Tales: My Review (SPOILERS, obviously!)
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Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:32:45 -0400, Matt Ion wrote
> (in article <hAFui.43807$fJ5.4923@pd7urf1no>):
> 
>> Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:47:44 -0700, Charlie Edmondson wrote:
>>>
>>>> She still doesn't believe that Joe is 'really' an atheist, he enjoys 
>>>> and understands the religous viewpoint far too well.  We found the 
>>> Sigh. This flares up regularly. 
>>>
>>> May it be that atheists understand the religious viewpoint much better
>>> than others b/c they have seen the viewpoint expressed in all the sagas
>>> they have studied?
>>>
>>> AFAIR JMS is an atheist similar to the way I am: He's studied a lot of
>>> belief systems from all times. 
>>>
>>> They make for very interesting reading, that's for sure.
>> It also gives him the advantage of not having his take on one form of 
>> religion (excessively) tainted by his own beliefs - for example, a 
>> practicing Jew would have a harder time writing a story about Muslim 
>> beliefs. <<
> 
> I disagree in the strongest terms possible.  That's like saying "a sighted 
> actor would have a hard time playing a blind character."

That's hardly the same thing.

Belief systems are things people can and DO change, adjust, tweak, based 
on their own observations, experiences, upbringings...

Blindness is something one is pretty much stuck with.
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