Alexander Collas's Blog - Posts Tagged "heaven"

One of the most common questions I’m asked is why, as an atheist, I chose to write a series of books using the Christian mythos. The answer is complicated but straightforward. The deities of the Christian mythos are widely known. Regardless of the reader's relationship with this mythos, most bring their own baggage and preconceptions with them to the series. This allows me to use the pages of the book to tell my story instead of building an entirely original history and power structures for the creatures contained within. As an example, all I have to say is Lucifer, and most readers, for good or ill, fill in the rest of his background based upon their own relationship with this deity. Feeling strongly that every story has two sides I wanted to examine a more logical and less fatalistic telling of how the living could fit into greater maturations of these commonly accepted gods. Personally, I felt it would be an exciting examination of the belief system of which I’d been raised and later rejected.