Ask Neil Gaiman

A very special "call for questions" today: Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman, a series whose long-awaited resurrection was -- not coincidentally -- announced last week. Neil is also winner of the uncoveted Roblimo's favorite book of the 21st Century so far award for American Gods, and a free speech activist who has concentrated -- again, not coincidentally -- on comic book and graphic novel authors' and vendors' freedoms. Please read this interview, listen to this NPR interview, and check other material about Neil before you ask questions, in order to avoid triteness. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Neil tomorrow, and post his answers when he gets them back to us.

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Re:New Gods?

[gaijin99]

The most puzzling god that was almost completely missing from American Gods was the big one ... you know, the guy that most midwesterners really worship.

Very few of the so-called "Christians" actually worship either Jehovah or Jesus. They worship money, their social standing, the 1950's, and a multitude of other things (including, sometimes, the church organization they belong to, which is often confused with the deity), but not the deity himself (themselves if you're into the Trinity thing).

The vast majority of those who call themselves Christian haven't even read the Bible, much less follow the teachings of Jesus. They are "Christian" because its the easiest path, not because they truly believe in it. If Baalism was the popular/respectable religion they'd all be pseudo-Baalists just as easily as they're all pseudo-Christians now.