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Christian influences in Fantasy writing

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Serack:
I have a huge amount of respect for Brandon Sanderson's abilities when it comes to poring out creative fantacy with hugely different and world important religious aspects that have nothing to do with the dogma of his own personally deeply rooted religious faith.

Elantris was a work of art with no less than 3 profoundly different approaches to religion (one main character esentially ascended to a broken godhood, one was rather agnostic, and one was a member of zealous religion but was struggling with loss of faith).  All three perspectives were marvelously well written with no petty faults that made their perspective weak and dismissable. 

Warbreaker was another book that was strongly influenced by the religion of the fantacy world it was built in.

Also, this essay, (the parent subject of which is TT for our purposes) contains some pretty good points about how he handles matters of faith in his art.

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