Chapter 146: Eagle's Pastors Conference Notes (Volume 3 Auxiliary Chapter)

CREATORS' THOUGHTS

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Is ya'll alright?

Did anyone fall asleep halfway? I did warn you you'd be reading a sermon from a pastor. If you were listening to Eagle, it would have been better as his Path would keep you interested and awake.

Anyways, the study of Typology is perhaps one of the most interesting fields in the whole art and scienece of reading the Bible. (Yes it has a science. it's known as Hermeneutics which is basically applied Inductive reasoning.)

Of course, Typology also is the most confusing! My burden since I wanted to involve religion in this novel, is that I have to give it the full measure. I mean, you've seen how politics greatly affect this story and the philosophical world views build it. So since I'm making Christian and Jewish religions a slightly more prominent world-building tool to unite the world and fight them aliens, then I have to tackle theologies.

There was one reader who asked why I didn't involve other religions in this story. And my answer is because I am not an expert in it. It's kinda obvious that I'm moderately knowledgeable in terms of Christian and Jewish theologies and has the grasps of other religions which are rooted in Abrahamic covenants. But not so with Hindu, Norse, Greek, Chinese and other religions. So I purposely shaped this story to only focus on the Abrahamic religions. After all, I can only write of what I do know.

Do not think that studying hindu, norse or other religions are easy. It has it's own historical theologies, philosophies and so on. Guru's, monks, and whatever religious teachers of these religions spend a lifetime learning it and I don't expect to learn all of them reading wikipedia. The more I study the Judeu-Christian theology the more I am convinced that it isn't something that people cannot learn easily. I've been studying theology for over a decade by the way. And If I try to add other religion, I would definitely misrepresent it. Well... maybe Greek is easy. I'll just make sure to make Zeus a guy who can't contain it in his pants. But then again, no one really worships this religion even now...