The most engaging stories are the ones where the main character goes through experiences that change him. But the devil is in the details, so to speak. Does he start as the antichrist? Is it because he is an atheist? Why or how does he go to heaven?
I have a similar set of ideas for a comic book series, though I am much more subtle about it. I like the idea of religious factions acting as de-facto mob families, using some bastardization of "honor" to rationalize all kinds of terrible behavior. You don't really need to stray too far from real life to create a convincing background that way.
I have a similar set of ideas for a comic book series, though I am much more subtle about it. I like the idea of religious factions acting as de-facto mob families, using some bastardization of "honor" to rationalize all kinds of terrible behavior. You don't really need to stray too far from real life to create a convincing background that way.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
