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Related: About this forumZombies and God: 5 Religious Questions That Zombie Stories Ask Us
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stant-litore/zombies-and-god-5-religious-questions-zombie-stories-ask-us_b_1988536.htmlStant Litore
Author, 'The Zombie Bible'
Posted: 10/25/2012 6:48 am
"And he asked me, Son of man, can these bones live?" -- Ezekiel
Since releasing the first novels in "The Zombie Bible," I've heard from a lot of readers asking me what zombies have to do with the Bible -- or what the Bible has to do with zombies. The answer is a lot, and I'm not just talking about the Bible's numerous references to either the risen dead or the restless dead.
After all, Western religion asks a series of nearly unanswerable questions: How do we, as a community, manage the excesses of human passion and drive? How do we maintain a just community while living in a world that wants to eat us? Is there a God in that world, and if there is, does he love us?
And though they lurch out of left field and are rarely written by philosophers or theologians, zombie stories tend to stalk down these same questions and chew their way right into them.
Let's take a look.
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Zombies and God: 5 Religious Questions That Zombie Stories Ask Us (Original Post)
cbayer
Oct 2012
OP
is there a link?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)2. There is no link. n/t
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Link added. Sorry about that.
DavidDvorkin
(19,481 posts)4. Not my zombie stories.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)5. I love the thematic nature of zombie literature
but don't know that we have to go to religion to get it. The statement of the human condition that zombie literature looks into doesn't require a religious framework to understand. If that helps you make sense of it, good on you, I guess.
The universality of the themes of the literature is why Walking Dead is so widely popular (graphic novels and TV show). The statement it makes about how we are going to react in the face of extreme duress and suffocating conformity comes across very clearly.