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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Good fiction will often have Christian themes in it (intentionally or not) because Christianity has shaped the way Western culture views the world. Concepts such as good or evil, flawed characters attempting to overcome their flaws, the problem of evil are all ones that are deeply Christian and yet hard to tell a good story without (well without some of them anyway).
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I would argue that the concepts you list were absorbed into Christianity
from Western (Hellenistic) culture rather than the other way around. Though we in the West may have inherited them
via Christianity, the Homeric epics are built on those very themes and predate Christianity on the order of a millenium.