Honestly I'm not religious like you guys, but I feel like we converge on the same conclusions from a different starting point. My disgust is entirely for the practical consequences they're inflicting on our civilization. The hell of it is, these stories are good. The editor did a good job separating wheat from chaff. It just that knowing what these people stand for, and the calculated way they use the characters to promote their ideology, humanize, normalize, make it seem harmless, interesting, futuristic, is subtle and galling. They're systematically excluding the ideologically impure from the mainstream sci-fi community, too. If an author has ever expressed doubt about left-wing politics, or if they're religious, they are basically black-balled.
