My first novel is part of an urban fantasy series I started writing as a tv show decades ago in high school. It was actually going to be like this where the MC dies at the end of the first season and goes to hell. Finds out the devil was the wronged party and the bible was mostly a psyop.
I wasn’t writing that cause I hated religion though I just had one of those weird 3 AM thoughts like what if aliens built the pyramids.
It wasn’t a well thought out story and I never did anything with it. In 2022 when I had my accident and broke my back I spent months getting well enough to walk and go back to work.
In the subsequent two and a half decades since I thought up that story there have been countless variations of God is the bad guy or Satan is misunderstood.
Most of them aren’t very good and are just a way to attack religion. So I told it like it is. The devil is the villain to tule all villains, God is good and I made the heart of the story the relationship between two childhood friends that get caught up in the fight for creation.
It’s still a fantasy story and does not follow revelations to the letter. I’ve published the first book and hope to write more in the future.
Oh and while writing it and doing research on religion it started me on the path to finding my faith, though I was already a believer.
Oh for the literal love of God can we please leave the Reddit Gnosticism at the door?