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No Religion to Divideby *humon

Digital Art / Drawings / Fantasy

The four deities that are seen in my Witch Hunter story. On the left, the Goddess and God from the Wiccan religion, and on the right an angel and the Devil from Christianity.

People seemed to assume the story was either pro-pagan or pro-Christianity, but one of the themes of the story was actually that humans have no way of controlling the gods, no matter how many religious rituals they preformed.
Therefore the gods’ interactions with humans seem very random to the characters. The Wiccan god saves a witch hunter, and the Christian angel makes the witch hunter help the witches. Because they cannot be concerned by silly things like human rules (aka religion) to decide who they will help.

Ironically the only deity who honestly cares about the human rules is the Devil, which is why he is the only one looking straight as us in the picture.

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~Mysteriumhex Apr 21, 2013

Magic and ritual are not about controlling Gods.It is about becoming closer to them.Religion is not based in mere human rules but is based in divine natural laws which can be misinterpreted by humans who try their best to understand their nature without realizing the limitations of human vision.

~ToonSage Feb 2, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Interesting look into human religions and it actually makes a lot of sense.

~orangezookeeper Jan 13, 2013

I find the whole religion concept to be misleading to most people. Religion is 'how you vote or protest' and rarely 'what you practice'. If people would just be more honest with what they believe, rather than join the group with the most money I think religions would simply be filled with people who actually believe and there would be less 'guilt-inspired behavior'. I don't mind if someone disagrees with me, as long as it is honestly and not some misquoted text.