There will eventually be a much longer and much better thought out post about this but one of the things I’ve really been thinking about going through Stormlight is the fundamental Christian underpinnings of the stock western fantasy story being “mortals attack and dethrone “false” god”
Especially when writers try to apply monotheistic definitions of deity to a polytheistic system and just fundamentally miss the entire point
But the funniest thing about it has to be a combination of how many self avowed atheists have taken absolutely ALL of those Christian underpinnings, completely failed to look at where they came from, and aggressively apply them to thinly veiled stories about killing the Christian god
(Not Sanderson specifically he’s not got The Vibe but listen we all know the ones)
And I think those atheists might be very upset to confront how foundational Christianity remains in their worldview and concept of deity
But I hope they can find the same deep and sincere joy in the realization that yes, they are using a profoundly Christian template with centuries of church propaganda to dethrone and destroy… Christianity
Massive “I trained the panthers to eat peoples faces but now they want to eat my face?!?!?!” energy