Like many of us, I do not support what the caste of barbarian priests has been doing to us for years.
This has always been the most baffling fantasy literature trope to me. It usually takes someone a major life event - or coming into deep contact with another religion - to have a years long crisis of faith, especially in eras prior to the Enlightenment when atheism really hit the scene.
Yet always the main character - who comes from a religious culture, has been deeply seeped in the religious culture from birth, has known nothing else but that - is some enlightened gentleman who's above it all and above those ghastly corrupt/evil priest classes.
This has always been the most baffling fantasy literature trope to me. It usually takes someone a major life event - or coming into deep contact with another religion - to have a years long crisis of faith, especially in eras prior to the Enlightenment when atheism really hit the scene.
Yet always the main character - who comes from a religious culture, has been deeply seeped in the religious culture from birth, has known nothing else but that - is some enlightened gentleman who's above it all and above those ghastly corrupt/evil priest classes.