On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney <crowyhead@gmail.com> wrote:
It's been a long time since I read Stranger in a Strange Land, so my
recollection of it was that Valentine Michael Smith could definitely
be read as a Christ-like messiah figure, but I was not sure that the
similarities were strong enough to constitute "Christian mythology"
along the same lines as "Lamb" by Christopher Moore, which is an
out-and-out re-imagining of the life of Christ. That was the original
context of the discussion.
Thank you, Kirsten, for saying it much better than I could! That was exactly what I meant to say, and exactly why including Stranger in the list didn't sit well with me.
Kris
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