"It doesn't seem to matter what gods you pray to. We all die in the real world and in fantasy worlds. So, if there was one culture where you did not die, I suspect that God would become very popular."
Not only "popular", George (R.R. Martin). I suspect; this is my comment, that if that was true, we wouldn't have freedom of religion, or separation of church and state for that matter. Religion is too bloody important to be left to the individual, dammit! In that sense, let's pray (!) for universal immortality, and hope the minority sticks to none whatsoever. It doesn't make any sense with a conditional immortality that works after man-made morality. Wow. I just jammed my main argument against religion into one, single, pitiful sentence.
See the entire Google interview (a real horrorshow, brothers) right here. Even, I mean especially if you haven't gorged in his books, you might get a lot from it. There are two small spoilers from GoT (episode 1.9 and 1.10), but it's announced aforehand at the "favorite scene" part. Just skip ahead a minute or maybe two.
"Let's give them leprosy. 'Mmm...'" B-))))
(Hail Mislam and it's everlasting prophet, Uhammad! He'll kick the Twelveth Imam's butt when they resurface for a final showdown. Unfortunately, or perhaps not, that doesn't happen as often as Spider-Man, Ironman or Batman - hopefully this was the last time for a long time, as the Nolans will hardly be outflanked in a hundred years of intelligent, ambitious and deeply spiritual scriptwriters. Prophets and sons of gods seem to have more in common with the likes of Mr. Freeze - they appear once, they die, they are replaced with other people with the same ambitions and the same claims. Sometimes, there may be enough uncertainty for them to maybe return from their demise, and in that they mirror the real world way better than any of their perpetuated foes of eternal light. Period.)
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