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Charlie Anders at IO9 has a post on the 7 Deadly Sins of Religion in Science Fiction<\/a>. It is definitely worth reading, as it insightfully identified examples of \u201call too easy\u201d plot options in this vein.<\/p>\n

Carmen Andres has a reflection<\/a> on the most recent episode of Lost, \u201cHe\u2019s Our You<\/a>\u201c, which seems to avoid such tendencies, by actually giving someone an opportunity to go back in time and decide whether or not to kill a child who in the future will grow up to be a killer.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Anders at IO9 has a post on the 7 Deadly Sins of Religion in Science Fiction. It is definitely worth reading, as it insightfully identified examples of \u201call too easy\u201d plot options in this vein. Carmen Andres has a reflection on the most recent episode of Lost, \u201cHe\u2019s Our You\u201c, which seems to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSin and Sci-Fi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charlie Anders at IO9 has a post on the 7 Deadly Sins of Religion in Science Fiction. 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