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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“” The first question we have to ask, are they an unfallen race? I think generally we’ve looked at the Martians as an unfallen race.”
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- Dana Gioia
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- 7 Apr 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What do Martians have to do to seek redemption? That’s a question Bradbury asked in The Fire Balloons. They’re pure energy. What can they do? We asked our eighth-grade nun if there were people on the other planets, would they have to get baptized, and would they go to heaven and hell? She answered the question brilliantly, I thought. She says, “Well, if there are people on other planets, if they fail the way Adam and Eve did, they would need redemption and God would need to redeem them. ” The first question we have to ask, are they an unfallen race? I think generally we’ve looked at the Martians as an unfallen race. They are the noble savage. They are the identic creatures except in H.G. Wells. What do you view as the implicit theology of the original Star Trek series? Is it in fact secular as it pretends to be or not?…
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