u/Typing-Cat

As a practicing Catholic, I enjoy stories about cynical, evil, corrupt churches with complex characters and motivations. I loved Abercrombie's "The Devils" because it tells engaging and hilarious stories about fun characters, and didn't feel like an anti-religion diatribe. So I picked up KJ Parker's "Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead" because it seemed to be in the same vein.

I did not love the opening line: "a lifetime studying the scriptures is a straight-line route to atheism, in my experience." That sounds like something straight out of r/atheism. And this review describes it as "examining almost any concept related to religion, power and history while demolishing them with an astonishing logic."

So is this basically a Richard Dawkins book disguised as a fantasy novel? I read books for fun, not to have my "invisible sky daddy" "demolished" by "le logic and le science." If it's not too preachy I'll give it a chance, but if a character asks if God can create a rock so heavy he can't lift it (mic drop), I'm out.