ext_12512: Hinoe from Natsume Yuujinchou, elegant and smirky (Saiyuki Gaiden: sakura of doom)
Smilla's Sense of Snark ([identity profile] smillaraaq.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2010-03-13 02:59 pm (UTC)

Looking through his blog and website, he identifies as an evangelical Christian, presumably non-denominational -- definitely not a hard Dominionist, as while he also talks about being conservative he's got a lengthy essay going into his objections towards that wing of the Christian Right that hitched its wagon to the Republican party; he seems to hold big government and evangelical megachurches in equal suspicion. Some of his beliefs -- Biblical literacy, the coming end times, Satan and evil spirits as real forces, seeing Mormons as non-Christian cultists, etc. -- lean towards the fundamentalist side, but given his mix of attendance at secular and religious colleges, his years working in mainstream TV and talk about big genre franchises like Twilight and Lost, he doesn't seem like the sort who thinks Christians need to fear and shun all secular media as inherently corrupting.

The really weird thing, though, is that his blog posts and essays all have pretty straightforward, coherent prose, no Portentous and Tragic random formatting or anything. Maybe some of the general incoherence comes from the book being something he worked on off and on for 25 years -- I can imagine it could be tricky to keep everything focused and consistent with so much elapsed time in production. But the stylistic quirks seem like they must have been a deliberate choice... *blinks*

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