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Originally Posted by I, Brian I don't believe that Terry Pratchett has a good grasp of religious or spiritual thought - or, at least, the concept seems intellectualised in this book, hence the notion of "gods" only existing if you actually believed in them. |
This is actually not a new theory - it's shown up in many stories I've read at least. I can't recall one in particular at the moment as this type of thing isn't central to the stories but I do know I've seen it a couple of times before in different fantasy stories.
If I'm not a complete idiot, I recall even discussing this theory in my religion class at University.
I think it is basically a mutation of the thought that without faith there can be no religion, and what is faith but belief? If you have no belief in something can it exist? Ok, I'll stop there - this isn't the religion forum after all.