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June 21, 2012

SF Writers. Convert.

If I may be droll, allow me to recommend to my fellow science fiction and fantasy novelists that they become Catholic
merely to increase their chance of writing a novel of lasting worth, power, and beauty, on the grounds that we Catholics see the cosmos as a sacramental temple whose stained glasses are lit with supernal light streaming in from beyond, and where the many-colored light touches, enchantment, magic, wonder and all the sacred things which give life richness spring up like elfin flowers, like the moly herb that wipes the lies of the eyes away, or like trees whose leaves are for the healing of nations: and like a wind in the stars we hear, far above the mystic horns of elfland blowing, the deeper magic ring in choirs of angelic song whose breath is the breath of life. -- John C. Wright's Journal

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 21, 2012 12:12 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I think Wright's story of his conversion is one of the most beautiful I've read in a while. What's so interesting about it is how it is like so many conversion stories of Muslims.

Posted by: Jewel at June 21, 2012 7:44 PM

Right. And Catholics (along with other religionists) think that the Being who set up the entire universe in the Beginning, with its unbreakable, beautiful laws, and has overseen its running for fifteen billion years and change - that Being will set those laws aside for anyone who mouths the right words with the right attitude. OK. Sure.

Believing in the power of prayer is truly staggering hubris.

Posted by: Fletcher Christian at June 21, 2012 10:52 PM

"Believing in the power of prayer is truly staggering hubris."

Your arrogance overwhelms your ignorance of Catholics.

Open your heart. Then open your mind long enough too close it on something bigger and greater than yourself. It is hubris on your part to think there is no power to prayer. Serious prayers are answered everyday.

Posted by: Terry at June 22, 2012 11:24 AM

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