/lit/ - Literature

Reading books like Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies, besides comic books like The Sandman, has made me realize some of the appeal of Christianity for pagans.

All these works have elves standing for paganism, they represent the wonder of an enchanted world, its art and poetry, and at the same time the ambiguous Nietzschean morals (or amorality) of pagans, who don't really see good and evil and are beyond the possibility of salvation. In such a world where magic is used as much as a tool to harm others as a instrument of wonder, is it any surprising that weary people would find consolation in a religion that promised protection from such spells?

Christianity is a rest, a repose. I see now why in African, Asian and Latin American countries so many people are leaving traditional religions and converting to Christianity (and Islam, I guess it works according to the same logic). As they say in my own country: "hexs doesn't harm believers".