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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 2032543" data-attributes="member: 1405">Nope.  If you read the source material, Lackey's Valdemar series, then the Church in question was headed by corrupt men who no longer received their power from god, instead they received their divine power from demons and corrupted their own church from within.  Eventually, the corrupt hierarchy was overthrown by a true follower of the faith.There is and should be a distinct difference between anti-chuch/ religion and anti-Christian.  IMO, the source material makes the distinction that the faith/belief is ultimately good, yet was corrupted by a few flawed people who wanted power.In fact, several alternate versions of that organization existed because there were good people who could not condone the corruption of their faith.Thus, the source material was in no way anti-Christian.  In fact, it was far more anti-corruption, and anti-evil.There are plenty of oppressive, patriarchal religions in the world and throughout history, so I do not see any reason to identify oppressive and patriarchal with Christianity when we have so many of the sources to choose from.  In any event, I see a difference between Agenda (which I take to mean shove it in your face dislike and you better learn to agree with me) and commenting/ critiquing human flaws and fallacies.A friend of mine has a favorite expression "You create your own reality."</blockquote>