this was actually a uni project so i had to make it stand on its own without having to read the source material, thats why i over explain some concepts LOL
I was thinking this morning that Robert A. Heinlein predicted megachurches in “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
“Stranger” was written at a time—the 1950s and 1960s—when the best minds of the West were convinced that religion was an archaic holdover from a primitive time, and that it would play no role in the future. The future was going to be atheist.
At about the same time Stranger was published, Time Magazine ran a cover that proclaimed “Is God Dead?” in big red letters. One of the world’s great superpowers was explicitly atheistic, and it looked like the other one was headed that way.
Nope, said Heinlein. Religion is going to be a big deal in the future. And he even predicted the form much of it would take, combining mass entertainment, religion, and politics.
Meanwhile, here in the real world of 2022, Time is looking a lot closer to dead than God is.
P.S. I loved “Stranger” when I first read it as a teen in the early/mid 70s. I reread it recently and I don’t think it aged well. I would not recommend it to a reader first encountering it today.
