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[benlehman]

If I could eliminate one meme from the collective conscious, it would be "god of ______"

It is dumb, ahistorical, amystical, and dumb.

(Okay, fine, I could eliminate hate or racism or homophobia or child rape or some shit. Yeah, I'd probably do that instead. Nonetheless, it is a pretty annoying one.)

Comments

Re: Well, yes.

[russiandude.livejournal.com]

I think what he means is that the actual gods have been formed through years of beliefs and associations getting tied together in one form. You can have people worship the same god, but in different ways, or worship different aspects of the same god, or worship an "older" version of the deity and so on. You just don't usually get that kind of detail in games, because that kind of detail takes decades/centuries to come together and about as long to document.

Re: Well, yes.

[redcrosse.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's pretty much what I mean.

Re: Well, yes.

[wirednavi.livejournal.com]

Synchretism, yo.