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Default Re: Fantasy genre: atheistic communist literature? - 06-20-2020, 02:36 AM

Well it just goes to show: once you've believed the first ridiculous thing the rest becomes much easier.

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atheist fools even count the Holy Bible as a fantasy book
Evidently that includes popes although the current four would disagree among themselves.
Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
It's worth considering the purpose of fantasy genres. Something like "Weaveworld" for example proposes a world of goblins and hags or whatever woven into a carpet as an intricate pattern which, in the direst of times, could become unwoven and we'd be overrun with hags and goblins or something. The plot is irrelevant; generally I'd say this was a type of fantasy. Now someone else may exclude this title from their definition, perhaps they're from a different age group or elements in the story are commonplace (because they live in a different culture) my point being, rather than characters or the worlds they inhabit, what the characters say or do is the salient feature of any story.

Some ideas which are difficult to express in, say, historical novels require a different setting. "Gulliver's Travels" would fall in this category – at least insofar the travels are concerned. What happens on Lagardo [the academy of projectors], Balnibarbi & Laputa [levitating island célèbre], even more so once the Houyhnhnms get going, is entirely fantastic. Swift's purpose however is more than just a ripping yarn.

Malory is more of an outlier. 15th century English was in a state of flux and he chose a more zingy French title but the story was accessible to a wide audience and helped to establish English as a literary language. The events are not historical but it's a stretch to call it mythology. Fantasy is one option – the point here being that genres don't have rigid boundaries.

Lucian also imagined fantastic locations where ideas could be expressed. Just because something is a frame narrative doesn't mean it's not fantasy and in this case the author's own comments place "A True Story" firmly in the fantasy corral. Atheistic? Communistic? Probably, depending on your definitions and more particularly how those ideas were seen at the time. Not all communism is Stalinism.

The Bible is neither. Its historical record preserves actual events enabling Christians to understand the need for Christ, what happened when His blood ran down onto the world He'd made and guarantees that when He returns the events described—since The Bible not only includes past history but future history as well—are certain to occur. Salvation depends on all these things, from the time of Eve to the final abomination.

A solution is assured.
II Peter 3:5b-7 By the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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