I wrote about how Gaiman's American Gods kind of sucks. (The Shack is better.):http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/not-believing-in-american-gods/ …
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Replying to @nberlat
It never made any sense to leave Jesus out of the story since he's by far the biggest actual threat to both sets of gods
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It's been remarked that having the Abrahamic God just kind of fade into the background reveals Gaiman's Britishness
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To see aggressive Christian evangelism as a thing of the past and not the present
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Also just a sign of his general disinterest in controversy, I expect; he wanted a light fantasy, not a book that was actually abt something
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Yeah it's especially funny given that the Old vs New Gods conflict doesn't really feel based on anything specific
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But a world of apocalyptic war between the God of the Bible and the Media, the Government, etc? I grew up in that world
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