From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 02 Feb 2000 - 20:53:38 EET
Gian Gero:
> Please, don't think so. Malkionism is much different from Christianity. It
> resembles the (wrong) idea of Christianity that non- Christians have.
Or worse, that ex-/lapsed Christians have, hrm?
> The only real resemblances are in Malkioni culture and social structure
> which is similar to feudal western Europe (which was Christian and
> not-Malkioni, of course). Other analogies fail or are irrelevant, IMO.
That strikes me as just a little bit of a blanket statement. I can
understand why this might be a 'sensitive' topic in many respects:
if one has a sincere belief, seeing it 'Monomythologised' and otherwise
subject to the vagarities of being mapped onto a fictional world may be
distinctly problematic, but nevertheless, I'd like to see some more
detail on _why_ Christianity is entirely qualitatively different from
any Gloranthan religion.
Not that I'm trying to suggest that Christianity is the one, best 'model'
for Malkionism either, mind.
Cheers,
Alex.
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