Do you tune out any/all creative endeavors when they mention god, or was it a case of it happening in this particular project really getting on your goat?
Actually, I'm a very religious person, and, as I said, when I write Drake's Venture, I write TD with enormous conflicts between his desires and the expectations of his religion. But when I wrote B7, I was always careful to keep my beliefs out of it, and really loathed fanfic where the characters celebrated solstice etc. To me, part of the absolute desolation of that universe is the lack of anything worth believing in - the state demands all loyalty, and it's a sterile mother. That's why Blake has such appeal as an alternative. It's also exemplary of how the Federation is softened in this one - the fact that they don't seem to care that the characters are religious means that they aren't even as totalitarian as Maoist China.
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Date: 2007-08-02 12:13 am (UTC)Actually, I'm a very religious person, and, as I said, when I write Drake's Venture, I write TD with enormous conflicts between his desires and the expectations of his religion. But when I wrote B7, I was always careful to keep my beliefs out of it, and really loathed fanfic where the characters celebrated solstice etc. To me, part of the absolute desolation of that universe is the lack of anything worth believing in - the state demands all loyalty, and it's a sterile mother. That's why Blake has such appeal as an alternative. It's also exemplary of how the Federation is softened in this one - the fact that they don't seem to care that the characters are religious means that they aren't even as totalitarian as Maoist China.