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  "thread": {
    "id": 1667,
    "subject": "Attack of the Christian Martians",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-06-04T08:31:20+00:00",
    "last": "1999-06-04T08:31:20+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0063@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-06-04T08:31:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Attack of the Christian Martians",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Michael Straight:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "C.  God exists, but his relationship to this alien race is something"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Me > To bring your thoughts in line with my earlier post, perhaps\nMe > hypothesis \"C\" is essentially Lewis's Space Trilogy.\n\nMichael > I don't think that really fits.  Lewis's aliens wouldn't have caused\nMichael > Blish's characters any problems because they were sinless and aware of and\nMichael > in communion with God, which is what Christians might expect of an\nMichael > unfallen race.  \n\nBut remember, it took Ransom a while to figure this out.  In OUT OF\nTHE SILENT PLANET, he confesses that once he knew that the residents\nof Malacandra were rational one of his first thoughts was that he as a\nChristian ought to attempt to \"enlighten\" them.  As I recall, he is\nrather embarassed by his own naivete in this regard and realizes that\nhe is the one who has a lot to learn.  This is what I was getting at\nby my comparison: that Ransom's initial response was not that\ndifferent from the Priest's in COC.\n\nShellac"
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