RE: Gods Breakfast

From: Aden Steinke <Aden_Steinke_at_uow.edu.au>
Date: 14 Dec 1994 17:13:16 +1100


Hi All;

Sandy Peterson said

>I have always disliked this particular definition of "God".
>It reeks of the lame fantasy-novel idea that the gods "feed" off
>their minions' worship in some inexplicable way, and just seems too
>tame for a really _cool_ god. I rather prefer the notion that the
>gods are independent of their resources. Orlanth doesn't depend on
>his worshipers to exist, but he does love his minions and works hard
>for their weal, as would any good thane.

Indeed, while believers may make a God more powerful, such as the Red Goddess, where did the older Gods come from if they needed worshippers to exist?

Aden Steinke


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