The blog Pictoral Theology shared the above cartoon. The title of the post aptly made reference to Jesus’ words about commenting on the “mote” (or speck or splinter) in someone else’s eye, while having a beam or plank in one’s own.
I am sorry to be missing Gen Con this year, which takes place this coming week. Cosplay is a fun component of the gaming convention. But I am always delighted when my course on religion and science fiction meets on Halloween. I will wear my Star Trek uniform, and will encourage students to wear costumes too. But whether they do or not, we will talk about the parallels between religious communities and those of sci-fi fandom.
I wonder how many atheist sci-fi fans, on the other hand, might say things about religion that would make an inversion of the cartoon equally apt. Could we put the speech bubble coming from the individual on the right, or perhaps from all of them, and have it work just as well, if not better, in making its point?
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