Mr. Moorcock,
A questions I've been wondering about for a while. I was curious about what appears to be a shift in opinion on the subject of religion in your work. While your earlier work has always struck me as being very much of in a sort hardcore, athiest, anarchist, secular humanist vien, in which religions and gods are seen primairly as drains upon mankind and their struggle for freeedom, your recent work, and I'm thinking most strongly of your Second Ether trilogy, has had in it a surprisingly theological streak to it. The dominant philosophy of those books seemed to me a quite vigorous theistic humanism, with a strong visionairy bent, especially in the quite delightfull Lunching with the Antichrist story, which to be honest surprised me in its affectionate picture of the old priest. Is this change simply because of desire to write sympathetic religious figures, or from a genuine softening towards religious instincts as a whole? Or did I entirely misread your earlier stance and you've always been this affectionate towards mysticism? Feel free to ignore this question if you feel I'm prying into your personal beliefs (which I suppose I unarguably am. hmmm) and thank you for your time.
A questions I've been wondering about for a while. I was curious about what appears to be a shift in opinion on the subject of religion in your work. While your earlier work has always struck me as being very much of in a sort hardcore, athiest, anarchist, secular humanist vien, in which religions and gods are seen primairly as drains upon mankind and their struggle for freeedom, your recent work, and I'm thinking most strongly of your Second Ether trilogy, has had in it a surprisingly theological streak to it. The dominant philosophy of those books seemed to me a quite vigorous theistic humanism, with a strong visionairy bent, especially in the quite delightfull Lunching with the Antichrist story, which to be honest surprised me in its affectionate picture of the old priest. Is this change simply because of desire to write sympathetic religious figures, or from a genuine softening towards religious instincts as a whole? Or did I entirely misread your earlier stance and you've always been this affectionate towards mysticism? Feel free to ignore this question if you feel I'm prying into your personal beliefs (which I suppose I unarguably am. hmmm) and thank you for your time.
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