6/22/2023 0 Comments Vorbis small godsPratchett is a genial writer, but he can’t keep the anger out of his narrative tone when describing this nightmare fundamentalism: Omnianism is a totalitarian hybrid of Christianity, Islam, and every other cult of purity and death. The Omnian religion, however, dictates that there is only one God: the Great God Om. The most successful gods end up on Cori Celesti, a kind of Valhalla where the strongest spirits and elementals spend eternity in bickering decadence. On the Disc, gods are created by belief they start off as disembodied spirits, whispering in the ears of shamen and prophets, and they grow in power as their believers increase. (Stay with me, please.) The Discworld has wizards, gods, and a Grim Reaper who personally meets every character that dies in the books. Terry Pratchett has written around forty books set on a flat planet which is carried through space on the back of a giant turtle. – Terry Pratchett, The Discworld Companion (1995 edition) And I thought: no, even I can see through that one. I was watching the news one day and some alleged holy man in Iran or Iraq or somewhere was pictured standing in front of a fountain flowing with fake blood and telling people how truly holy it was to die for God.
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