[Serious] The Humanities

[possibletarian]

Well yes of course people write from their own values, be they religious or secular, but that is not to say romance stories would not have existed without Christianity, just that they would be different.

That's what I'm saying. The romances that I've been talking about were written by Christians and therefore reflect a Christian view. They could only have been written by Christians.

Stories written by others would be different.

Different in what substantial way exactly ?

This is the problem i have with most your posts, i don't really understand what you are trying to say you seem to take something simple and make it unnecessarily and horribly complex.

Let me have a go and you can correct me if i'm wrong. Are you saying essentially that romances with good endings would not be possible without Christianity ?

Also If they contained what are considered Christian values,and only a person with these (religiously motivated ) values could have written them then how do you reconcile the claim they are also nonreligious in nature ?