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The neo-religions of science fiction

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The Universal Christ Archetype in Science Fiction

The Jesus Christ story becomes central to the Roman Catholic Church because it is a way of um taming Roman culture. In recent decades we have Star Wars Luke Skywalker as a semi-messianic figure coming through the hero's journey heroes of a thousand face evisives and Joseph Campbell he's drawing on all those great Christ myths to formulate that idea. I didn't have time to say any of this in the video essay so I'm happy to unpack some more of it  and we'll touch on this again when I get to the the housekeeping session that uh at the center of the essay here what time we on about 27 minutes so far, let's just see if I

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