So, What’s the Deal with the Anti-Christ: Confronting Evil Through Sci-Fi and Fantasy

So, What’s the Deal with the Anti-Christ: Confronting Evil Through Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. —G.K. Chesterton. “So, What’s the Deal with the Anti-Christ?” That’s the question I was asked one night in Walters House, a boarding school dormitory in a respected private school where I was working as an assistant housemaster. It…

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Evil is Easy: Why Effectively Portraying Goodness is a Challenge for Writers

Evil is Easy: Why Effectively Portraying Goodness is a Challenge for Writers

Why are people so impressed with evil? Does it really take a brilliant mind to create perversity? Do you remember Sid Phillips from the Pixar movie, Toy Story? His pleasure in life was terrorizing his little sister by taking her toys and using them to perform perverse operations on. He would tear off baby heads and attach them to steel…

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