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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Oh so if the coins didn't exist, neither would greed/corruption/other human flaws? The real world begs to differ...
The coins contain an embodiment of an archetype, yes... but they aren't the source of all evil. They merely represent an undistilled example.
(I am the wrong person to ask about the Biblical meaning of 30 pieces of silver. I ascribe no supernatural importance to the story of Jesus -- being Jewish, I merely think of him as a false messiah who challenged a group, the Romans, who weren't amused. Nothing to see here.)
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Disclaimer: Please do not take offence in me using the words like religion and mythology interchangably. I respect whatever your belief system is, as long as you are not trying to recruit me or convince me you are right and I am wrong. To me every religion is the same, as I do not believe in any. That also does not mean that my belief system is better or worse than your system.
Yes I see now. And you are right. The coins do not discriminate which religion you are when you take them. Neither do the swords.
It is strange that angels exist with the power to undo galaxies from christian mythology, thus explaining the earth beeing created by that one god. But you also have other mythologies (e.g. greek) with their own real gods that exist. And then you also have vanilla science in the book.
I mean it is fiction, but the rules and the world are all plausible. And I can understand why Butcher uses mostly christian references - after all his target audience is christian dominated here in the US.