In a previous issue of Christianity Today, the cover story was about Science Fiction and “how the genre draws us to its own views of redemption.” The author, James A. Herrick, writes,
“Ironically, the universe that science stripped of the supernatural is being resupplied with deities and redemptive purposes by science fiction writers and moviemakers. Apparently, we cannot do without myths.”
Having been a fan of the genre for most of my life, I am very in tune with this. And the future of Christian apologetics will need to address the counter-myths that our pop culture’s sci-fi stories have created.
As Herrick says, pop culture is “now our most potent form of religious persuasion… Arguments against Christianity and in support of rival worldviews now arrive daily as embedded components of visual and written fiction. Pop-culture fiction, not academic nonfiction, is now the cutting edge of public discourse on spirituality.”
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