psychotick
Auror
Hi,
From memory the most anti-magic bit in the bible is the part about not suffering a witch to live. But in this part of the OT it was largely talking about pagan worship.
As for the rest, I think you have to ask yourself a few questions. Are you writing purely to entertain? Or are you writing to secretely convince people that magic is real and that by uttering a few trite phrases with their fingers waving they can do amazing things? I can see where the latter might go against the spirit of Christianity, but not the former.
And if in doubt you can return to the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In this case an example of the former would be reading fairy tales to amuse a child but not to convince them that monsters are real, (that would be quite nice), and the latter would be telling lies with the intent of deception (I don't like lying and I don't like being lied to). So though your books are fiction, are they intended to deceive?
Personally I write fantasy as well as sci fi, and I'm a believer. But I don't expect anyone to take my books as anything more than they are, a simple tale to be read for enjoyment.
Hope that helps.
Cheers, Greg.
From memory the most anti-magic bit in the bible is the part about not suffering a witch to live. But in this part of the OT it was largely talking about pagan worship.
As for the rest, I think you have to ask yourself a few questions. Are you writing purely to entertain? Or are you writing to secretely convince people that magic is real and that by uttering a few trite phrases with their fingers waving they can do amazing things? I can see where the latter might go against the spirit of Christianity, but not the former.
And if in doubt you can return to the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In this case an example of the former would be reading fairy tales to amuse a child but not to convince them that monsters are real, (that would be quite nice), and the latter would be telling lies with the intent of deception (I don't like lying and I don't like being lied to). So though your books are fiction, are they intended to deceive?
Personally I write fantasy as well as sci fi, and I'm a believer. But I don't expect anyone to take my books as anything more than they are, a simple tale to be read for enjoyment.
Hope that helps.
Cheers, Greg.