They think they know. "Catholics burned witches! They were superstitious and ignorant and anti-science!" But sound-bite worldbuilding shows its flimsy underpinnings--your example about Urban Fantasy is a good one. Of course, an equally ignorant reader is happy with the story.
Quoted For Truth.
And then there's the assumption that all religions are the same and share all the same flaws and advantages. I'm a little sick of seeing religions with different gods and goddesses, different core beliefs, etc. having rituals and clerical orders that are suspiciously Christian.
(And seeing as this somehow became Redwall week for me, can anyone explain the near total absence of religious ritual or prayer or discussion of belief in a set of novels that almost entirely takes place in an abbey full of monks and nuns?)
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Date: 2012-09-08 04:23 pm (UTC)Quoted For Truth.
And then there's the assumption that all religions are the same and share all the same flaws and advantages. I'm a little sick of seeing religions with different gods and goddesses, different core beliefs, etc. having rituals and clerical orders that are suspiciously Christian.
(And seeing as this somehow became Redwall week for me, can anyone explain the near total absence of religious ritual or prayer or discussion of belief in a set of novels that almost entirely takes place in an abbey full of monks and nuns?)