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  • Noah Cochran replied to the topic Fantasy Is NOT the Same Thing As Magic in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 7 months ago

    @r-m-archer

    To be candid, I’m surprised that you even consider Riordan okay. The bible constantly talks against other gods, and messing with demonic or and natural realms, and Riordan’s plots are literally based around greek gods and their supernatural powers. Do you think our God would like us reading books where those false gods are actually real with supernatural powers? I feel bad even considering it.

    I still don’t think any of those things are inherently wrong to use. The real world has false gods and false religions.

    Yes, in our world there are false  gods, that are fake. In that world, there are real  gods (I called them false because I don’t want people confusing them with ours), that act like humans except they are supernatural. I believe one of them even dies, or died before the series started or something. It’s just a mess. Gods fighting, dying, granting supernatural power, being worshiped by a false religion, this is literally the very thing  our God tells to say away from. What I like in a fantasy world is a God referenced as the creator of the universe (like Asland-Lewis, Eru Illvatar-Tolkien, and the Creator-Jordan). That make it clear that the world is created by a supernatural being, which is pure logic, and does not give in to any of the nonsense aesthetic or evolutionary views. Otherwise, there shouldn’t any made up pantheon of supernatural beings, there shouldn’t be  characters meeting with God and being granted supernatural powers, and there shouldn’t be any religions. Maybe a religion could be okay, but only if it played a minor rule and was clearly nonsense, OR the religion was just a “we worship the Creator” type thing, I see nothing wrong  with that. Creating your own religion that isn’t the type of Creator worship I just described in a world is something I am very strongly against, it is literally making a false religion and false gods, how does it get more anti-biblical than that? I’m frankly surprised that the thought of doing such as thing doesn’t give you a bad feeling in your gut. xD

     

     

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