We know from "The Problem of Pain" and The Day Of Their Return that there are convinced Christians on Aeneas.
Hugh McCormac reflects:
"If Kathryn were tuned in on my mind...she'd say there must be something in Leviticus against mixing so many metaphors."
-CHAPTER ONE, p. 372.
Not a serious remark, obviously, but one that confirms the role of the Bible on Aeneas.
Kathryn McCormac to Dominic Flandry:
"'Dominic, I'm prayin' for both of you.'"
-CHAPTER FIFTEEN, p. 505.
- for both her husband and Flandry who are on opposite sides in a civil war.
"[McCormac] thanked his iron God that the sun of Llynathawr was not visible in these latitudes."
-CHAPTER SIX, p. 425.
Flandry to McCormac:
"'Down on your knees, McCormac, and thank whatever smug God you've taken on as your junior partner, that I have to find some way of saving your life because otherwise the harm you've done would be ten times what it is!'"
-CHAPTER FIFTEEN, p. 509.
Well, what is God: iron, smug or something else? Until He tells us, each of us has to find the best answer that we can.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
You might be reading too much into what he said. I don't think Flandry was seriously thinking about God like that. He was expressing some of the anger he had for McCormac.
Ad astra! Sean
"expressing some of the anger he had for McCormac"
and the anger was partly at what sort of God he thought McCormac believed in.
I suppose Poul had seen some believers think they were God's special favorites.
"A fanatic is someone who does what he knows God would do, if only the deity knew the facts of the matter."
Kaor, Jim and Mr. Stirling!
Jim: At his worse McCormac strikes me as being sanctimonious and self righteous. But I still don't see Flandry as thinking quite as you suggested.
Mr. Stirling: Ha! Too grimly apt. That was certainly how, in different ways, Robespierre and Lenin thought.
Ad astra! Sean
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