#he cant decide is his evil church is anglican anglo catholic roman catholic eastern orthodox or what

[moonssugar]

im actually very pretentious about fantasy religions if ur gonna make a fantasy christianity please combine aspects of existing groups and get weird and sexy and insane wit it and please make up your own shit that has never existed and could theoretically but also dont mix up things that are theologically inconsistent or call x group another when theyre clearly closer to y group bc i will know and i will not be pleased that you didnt do basic wikipedia research. you dont have to exaggerate the bad things churches do the real life horrors are way more compelling to explore and need to see the light of day. if i see you taking obvious insp from one denomination and putting it on another with no consideration with how they actually work im suing you for medical damage. cant tell anyone how churches differ theologically? go back to square one. there are no marian statues in a baptist church. no anglicans are not the same church as the catholic one. yes lutherans and methodists are different. no orthodoxy and catholicism arent the same. no most protestant churches dont have priests. no you dont have to copy and paste the cultish aspects of mormonism into your mainline protestant or evangelical church i promise you its already weird enough you just need to look deeper. but please do go apeshit on mormonism though. they all have specific psychological effects and theyre not the same effects literally ask the people that left. the flavors of trauma will differ ex christians are like baskin robins ice cream. and finally if youre critiquing a religion and your critique isnt vague enough to apply to all of it — get specific. dont just throw spaghetti at the wall, talk your shit but talk it well. i should know exactly what bitch youre talking about so dont be afraid to name drop. much to be said about fantasy christian based cults in media but thats another post

#this is about philip pullman #he cant decide is his evil church is anglican anglo catholic roman catholic eastern orthodox or what #this is directed at other stories as well #now some people who grew up in specific church and write about it know what theyre talking about. the rest of you? no <3 #dont be lazy about it. spend hours and hours on wikipedia and websites and download catechisms onto your laptop as reference #basically when stories are all over the place in this aspect its suuuuuper annoying as cringe to me sorry #authors that execute their fantasy christianity well are andrew joseph white. that man knows what’s up #other authors not so much. you can tell who escaped the death cult and who is just complaining #writing #fantasy religion #fantasy catholicism