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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I would actually staunchly defend the take that Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is the same premise but done way better too
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I mentioned Pratchett's Small Gods, but that's a good alternative.
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Pratchett's Small Gods never mentions Christianity but is clearly about Christianity and it's awesome
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And the Oats character from Carpe Jugulum is a very British "We've tamed religion but what'd we lose by doing so" meditation
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It's persuasive even to me, an American whose experiences with our untamed Christian Right makes me uneasy of calls for a Christian Left
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Probably relevant in the UK now that the very untamed Christian Right in Ulster suddenly showed up to be kingmaker in Parliament
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But yeah Long Dark Teatime is so good bc of how much it leaves in negative space, how it doesn't lean too hard on the metaphor
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Just treating actual homeless ppl and actual elderly ppl and the metaphor of pagan gods as one big Tragedy of What We Left Behind
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