MEMBER BLOG TAG: nadeen aslam
| Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:27PM | | | | Make Believe or Must Believe? | Tags: Benjamin Anastas, Jan Kjaerstad, Brian Everson, Nadeen Aslam, Mormon, Brigham Young
| | | | The panel on Faith and Fiction was the one I most wanted to attend. I disagree with the premise that fiction is make-believe and faith is must believe. Fiction is far more than make-believe. Some fiction presents a truer picture of the world than television, movies or newspapers. When Marlon James asked a German historian the source for his description of life in 19th Century Germany, the historian said it was from novels.
Some fiction requires suspension of belief, as does a fable or parable, but fiction goes to the dark side to test, identify, clarify with the ultimate purpose of redemption. Hamlet is must-believe at the end. So is Crime and Punishment, the parables of Jesus, the fables of Aesop, the stories of Franz Kafka.... | | | | | |
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