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Re: Context please?
Date: 2006-01-11 05:26 pm (UTC)In our world, some events are mere accidents, and some are described as "acts of God," incomprehensible to men. What if, in those "acts of God" we literally saw the hand of God, or his agents, at work? Chiang takes that "what if" idea to its extreme conclusion.
The funny thing is, if you've read The Great Divorce, you more or less have the same story. Admittedly, the Great Divorce is set in the Foothills of Heaven, where everyone is given one last chance to see the Hand of God at work, but Lewis is telling the same story: What if the Christian mythos were not only true but manifestly visible?
Lewis is clearly rooting for God, so his story comes out as propaganda, as he intended. Chiang is far more ambivalent.