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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 3970735" data-attributes="member: 7220">Responding in a different post, because the other one was long.The Golden Compass too, but that's irrelevant.  Let's not turn this into a contest on which religion is cooler.  Point 1) Hardly anyone who's read or watched those works can point to the specific pedigree of those concepts.  Point 2) That particular religious milieu has not permeated Western culture the way Catholicism/Protestantism has.  It would be impossible for me to write fiction about a character or god dying on a cross without bringing to mind Christianity.  The word archon just isn't culturally loaded that way.  Point 3) It doesn't matter because they're all just syntheses of ancient works anyway.  The creators of 4E have no strange obligation to stay true to the vision of the Wachowski brothers, or the writers of Xenogears, or anybody else.  When we're dealing with ideas with such a long pedigree, being older by a decade or so doesn't cut it for me.  They're writing modern myth and using the old baggage for emotional oomph, just like the others.  If people enjoy the modern myth and the cultural baggage they've chosen to employ works out well, then they've succeeded.</blockquote>