This is LITERALLY the 17th page. For the love of Cosmos can I get ONE fiction/fantasy book where the Catholic Church is there and isn’t evil.
And do NOT get me started on tv shows, movies, video games….
(The book is “Queen of the Tearling” by Erika Johansen
Interestingly enough, y’all, there is reasoning to the main character’s
thinking, and in the whole series there are positive
examples of personal belief and religion.
The philosophy behind it is basically this: tread
carefully, question yourself before blindly believing, follow kindness.
As to the content of that page; it depicts a scene where Kelsea meets the old guard of her mother, the former now dead queen, and realizes that, whelp, her mother might actually have chosen a large bunch of them solely for looks. She questions this outlook.
I can understand where the criticism toward this scene is coming from, for I myself was sceptical when starting the books (on how they were going to treat religion as such and other things) especially since there are quite a lot of examples out there depicting religion extremely negatively without any questioning.
I found myself pleasantly surprised however as the story progressed and actually made an effort to talk about topics other YA novels might’ve actively shied away from.
Instead of just making it a fact that ‘religion as a whole’ is ‘bad’, the book handles it openly and even dares to make thesis similar to ‘the person guiding a thought concept can become corrupt and manipulate others to serve their own end goal’.
If any questions arise, I would love to answer them and give examples from the books.
Thank you all for your time and reading this.
We Are What We Feel 