I can say its presentation of Scandinavian animisms is ... inaccurate.
You mean, they got Thor's hit points wrong?
Same goes for Native American animisms.
Vedic texts are sacred texts to modern Hindus.
Well, 'inaccuracy' may be an appropriate criticism of a scholarly work on the subject, but here:-
* the very idea that it's even
possible to be 'accurate' regarding a system of belief which changed over 100s of years, that you could capture a moment in time and perfectly replicate those beliefs as 'accurate', is absurd. It would be rendered inaccurate when not talking about that specific time
* even different adherents active at the exact same time have different ideas about what is 'true' regarding their religion! Asking a gaming product to do the impossible shows that this objection cannot rationally apply
* Deities & Demigods is/was a gaming supplement. It was designed with certain goals in mind: to provide the DM with gods and pantheons of gods to use in his campaign world, to inspire further study....to be a
game supplement, not an 'accurate' scholarly work!
So until D&D players become mature enough to talk about....Atheism and other traditions...
What now?
...Atheism and other traditions...
Atheism? Tradition? What are you on about? Atheism is a tradition in the same way as 'Not Collecting Stamps' is a hobby! The word 'atheist' tells you absolutely nothing regarding what an atheist believes, only that there is one thing that they do
not believe, which is the literal existence of any gods.
What would the 'Atheist Tradition' section of Deities & Demigods look like? Twelve blank pages? The day of the week that is set aside for atheists to
not attend any church? What they do with the 10% of their money that they aren't compelled to give away? How many hit points 'No God' has?
...with some sensitivity, we are probably not mature enough to talk about other reallife spiritual heritages either.
It's a mistake to conflate 'real life' and 'spiritual life'. They are mutually exclusive concepts.
Sure, you come across as knowing a lot about dead religions. Well done you. But your criticism of a D&D game supplement for 'inaccuracy' is misplaced. I will continue to enjoy the Marvel comics version of a blond, clean-shaven 'Thor' despite knowing the 'inaccuracies', because the goal of the comics is to entertain, not to be a dissertation on Scandinavian culture intended to get tenure from Harvard!