I'm re-reading The Black Company by Glen Cook. Quite awesome dark fantasy. Recommended. One quote just made me smile:
But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.
Isn't it true? There is abundance of guidelines for converting good people of other faiths, there are thousands of pages about how to make god(s) like us even a little bit, and there is even more about stuff like afterlife and how to get there (step one, dying, is the least important). Amazingly creative works of fiction.
There isn't that much about growing up from all that. Well, there is buddhism, but even that is kind of... not free from rituals, faith, false teachers, etc.
This post has no conclusion. I don't think it needs one... :)
