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Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on May 01, 2020, 05:08:34 PM ---@exartiem
I like that idea although I think Jesus in the DV was a god

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Most modern Christians say he was both god and man, so it wouldn't be a large departure for Jim to have him be a god and a man who was a wizard or something. But I don't think Jim is going to go into a whole lot of detail about Jesus. I don't think we're going much deeper into Christianity than we got in Skin Game or any other part of the series so far. We might get into what characters believe about it, but I doubt we're going to have an authoritative statement one way or the other about much.

exartiem:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 01, 2020, 06:25:42 PM ---Most modern Christians say he was both god and man, so it wouldn't be a large departure for Jim to have him be a god and a man who was a wizard or something. But I don't think Jim is going to go into a whole lot of detail about Jesus. I don't think we're going much deeper into Christianity than we got in Skin Game or any other part of the series so far. We might get into what characters believe about it, but I doubt we're going to have an authoritative statement one way or the other about much.

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I think he will get a little deeper into Christianity.  He almost has to.  He has brought 5 of the highest and most powerful religious artifacts into the story line and he has said he is a lazy writer, so he isn't going to waste them.

g33k:

--- Quote from: exartiem on May 03, 2020, 11:54:15 AM --- ... and he has said he is a lazy writer, so he isn't going to waste them.
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... and Harry's staff for the cover of Battle Ground seems to have a SPEAR head on it ...

I wonder where he found THAT li'l ol' thang...

Bad Alias:
But he doesn't have to go any deeper to bring them out again, much less much deeper. Jim's kept to a very bird's eye view of Christianity. There was this guy named Jesus who was crucified and has a relationship to the Creator that makes relics associated with him powerful weapons against forces of evil. Angels, including archangels and fallen angels, are real. The Creator believes in allowing humans choice. That's really about it.

He has given us plenty of different characters opinions on Christianity and God, but opinions aren't authoritative.

There's a big difference in saying what the artifacts are going to do and saying Jesus was a wizard or some such thing.

Yuillegan:
Hmmm not sure I 100% agree, BA.

Jim tends to walk a funny line between saying everyone's views are equally important and there is an objective truth to things. Which aside from being contradictory is also just frustrating. But it does make for interesting writing, to a point.

I would say he will likely explore it further, yet also probably not take too strong a position. He might get TWG or Jesus or some other Deus Ex Machina moment in, but also deliberately leave it vague. You can sort of tell when he talk about how it isn't the beings themselves that change, just our ideas about them. The whole three blind men and an elephant analogy.

But I would definitely expect him to explore Christian teachings/legends (just to be clear, legends are not necessarily myths - but they are stories with a point rather than historical notation/exposition/analysis which any theologian could tell you, doing my best to be respectful here). He has already included a number of items and embellished and invented new parts of it, so I expect there to be a fair bit more. 

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