Chloe Frizzle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love all the themes and philosophy of religion in your books. I'm wondering, are you personally religious? Is there a particular religion/denomination that you follow or that inspires your work?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I am not personally religious at this time, having no belief in the supernatural. My family background is Protestant Christian. But I have friends from many other faiths. And, of course, I've read about and studied religions through history, everything from Roman and pre-Roman paganism, medieval Catholicism, other world mythologies, Buddhism, and on and on. It's a fascinating subject, both historically and psychologically. Why do people believe what they believe? (And behave as they behave.) And so on.
Religions, it seems to me, have two major aspects: supernatural assertions, and moral or ethical teachings, advice for living rightly. The latter can have a lot to teach separately from the former, and need not depend for their validity on it.
Ta, L.
Religions, it seems to me, have two major aspects: supernatural assertions, and moral or ethical teachings, advice for living rightly. The latter can have a lot to teach separately from the former, and need not depend for their validity on it.
Ta, L.
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Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I like that thought. Yes. I guess that’s why rereading is so satisfying 😊 Obligatory ?
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