I voted "yes." "My Favorite Deity" has a face. Although I agree that the scriptures are figurative in many instances, I believe they are being literal when they say (among others) that Moses talked to God face to face. I believe God is a Man. Jesus called Him "Father,"...

I think that point is irrelevant... it's an easy way out. You can say exactly the same thing about any ideology. Still that doesn't change the fact that some ideologies are inherently violent, and some are not inherently violent (even if violence is exerted in their name). This is a question about ...

and then he showed me seven ways that he know how to kill a person with his bare hands. that relationship clearly did not last. Nothing wrong with having the knowledge. It's if, when and how he uses it that makes the relationship tricky. Kind of like...was he more the Ender kinda guy or more like A...

Along with Ender's and Speaker, which I have to assume that everyone here has either read or will read, here are some winners: Illuminatus! (or, the Illumantus Trilogy, or, How I found Goddess and what I did to her when I found her--that might be a title for the Principia though--so much time, so li...

Yeah. Avoid 'em. C.S. Lewis packs in too much theology to make the story interesting. Though I'll be the first to admit I'm biased.

They were awesome precisely because they pack in theology. The Last Battle was my favorite.

Having just finished Ender's Game, I'm kinda disappointed by the way he finds the Hive Queen. It seems to me like a cop-out. It's as if Card is saying "yeah, he did all this heavy s***, but everything's good, because even though he destroyed every single bugger everywhere, there's still one, a...

Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire Ive watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms Theres so many different worlds So many differents suns And we have just one world But we...

One of my favorites is from Speaker where Ender and Novinha have recently met. I have it tattooed on my feet. "Es solo fecundo e vou plantar jardim ai" I also like the end of Ender's Shadow where Bean's speaking to the fleet... it makes me cry every time I read it, the whole bit about Abs...

Heck with Charisma...just based on tactics, Ender was far more empathic than Bean. He had the ability to understand his opponent. That was his advantage. Bean was brilliant, but Ender was the whole package.

sorry if I'm making anyone angry, but the Shadow series failed miserably, imho. Still fun reads and all because it's so easy to like Bean, but... For many of the reasons that EG and SftD were amazing novels (it almost seemed like they actually could happen), the Shadow Series just didn't cut it. 1. ...

but Speaker had me crying through the whole book.