Is the bible underused as a source of creativity for fictional worlds?
Plenty of high fantasy settings take from Norse and Arabic mythology blatantly. Works with a more folk feel will clearly show their inspirations from Celtic and Slavic tales of old. But for supposedly being the most widespread religion in the world today, Christianity seems very underutilized as a basis for fictional worlds. Even among the works that do use it, it has not been borrowed from as deeply as other religions and mythologies, often with the influence being no more than the names of a few things. Used more often as an inspiration is the Divine Comedy, but considering how that's an epic poem and not actually a religious text it doesn't really count. Although there's been some interesting use of parts of actual Christian mythology such as in the Assassin's Creed series, it's mostly been limited to poorly researched use by hack thriller authors such as Dan Brown. In fantasy and science fiction, it's almost never used for as much inspiration as paganism and fairy tales are. Should the Bible be used as influence more often?
| Yes, there is underused potential here. | 13 | |
| No, it's used often enough. | 7 | |
| No, the reason it's used less is because it's not as interesting. | 9 | |
| Fantasy is bland and boring anyway, no matter what you do with it. | 0 | |
| Other (Add a comment) | 4 |