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butchjess · 1 year ago

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a canticle for leibowitz a book that is like a vaccine in getting you to forgive fictional christians for being annoying. i love you religion prevailing after the world ends and then starts again i love you the cyclical nature of man and empires and nations

#yes i cried reading abbot zerchi talking about killing his dying cat with a gun and then a shovel bc it refused to die #and kept trying to escape and kept trying to wait and die with dignity. and that he thought he should've let it #and it was unnatural to not let it.#this books christianity is less the death cult that it is in real life and more life is the most important thing in the world #and of course it would be. to a faction of belief that is the only one that cared to remember what led to the deaths of billions and to #protect the knowledge that was being destroyed because of it.#because of this it's less any sort of meditation on actual christianity so it's not as insufferable to read as something like. idk. ben-hur #and walter miller jr definitely does a good job of establishing this by having the characters have such different stances on religion/the #purpose of it than most christians do now. he called the 'poor artists' of before and their popular more feminine 'pretty' depiction of #jesus christ as like. basically blasphemous to him. very interesting indeed.#abbot zerchi in particular says this it's a good line #plus its very funny . genuinely witty and charming and made me laugh out loud #anyways. brother francis my stupid monk boy dont be dead girl be alive #a canticle for leibowitz

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