Want to be writer, but also want to be a religious

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I’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember. I like writing them… but I also feel that I should be a consecrated person( I need to be confirmed). I’ve always wanted to put christian or catholic themes in my stories. I also like to read military science fiction, but have been disturbed as they often have extra-marital or sexual affairs in those stories. One series that I liked had a pagan character and in the future of the series, there were orgies and polygamy. I’ve been wanting to write a military scifi series of my own about Christian/catholic peacekeepers that are humanitarian. I feel crossed between something good.
 
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Hey,
I’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember. I like writing them… but I also feel that I should be a consecrated person( I need to be confirmed). I’ve always wanted to put christian or catholic themes in my stories. I also like to read military science fiction, but have been disturbed as they often have extra-marital or sexual affairs in those stories. One series that I liked had a pagan character and in the future of the series, there were orgies and polygamy. I’ve been wanting to write a military scifi series of my own about Christian/catholic peacekeepers that are humanitarian. I feel crossed between something good.
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Many religious are also authors. Wither your a religious or a lay person I would stay away from those kinds of science fiction stories as they are not good for the mind. What goes in your brain always leaves an impression even if you don’t think it does. We can become accustomed to things and not realize it. I think that is what has happened to our society in so many ways in the last 50 or so years !! God Bless, Memaw
 
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Hey,
I’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember. I like writing them… but I also feel that I should be a consecrated person( I need to be confirmed). I’ve always wanted to put christian or catholic themes in my stories. I also like to read military science fiction, but have been disturbed as they often have extra-marital or sexual affairs in those stories. One series that I liked had a pagan character and in the future of the series, there were orgies and polygamy. I’ve been wanting to write a military scifi series of my own about Christian/catholic peacekeepers that are humanitarian. I feel crossed between something good.
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Be both. Write the military scifi. It is possible - and laudable, by the way - should you write such a story without the negative aspects you named.

(One will take more fortitude over the other. :signofcross: )
 
I encourage you to do both. As a writer of fiction and the resident ‘military expert’ at the company where I work, Military and technology-driven SF have always been my favorites. Starting in the 1980s, crude, sexual and other immoral situations became more common, and as a manuscript editor, it is my job to mark such words, actions and situations in otherwise good manuscripts we receive.

My favorite SF is from the 1950s and 1940s. However, even then, the thing I eventually found out was that there was a definite Humanist tendency in many stores. That means man, unaided by God, will find the answers to his problems. Emerging technologies such as human-robot interaction, devices controlled by direct and indirect links to the human brain and other disruptive to very disruptive technologies are beginning to appear. Travel to other worlds has been neglected since it involves inventing technology, plants, animals and aliens. Faster than light drives are a given.

Telling a thrilling and plausible story is the goal but it takes work. When I saw the first Terminator movie, I began to believe we are approaching a point where we could build it. We are. Neural networks and self-programming and learning robots are in development. Fully functional artificial skin. The list goes on.

Watch the movies: Forbidden Planet (1956), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953, especially the end), and Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).

Ed
 
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