I’ve been planning to read the Stormlight Archives this year but then I came across an article saying that there’s a lot of wokeness in that book, including a trans army or some shit like that. Is all that true? I thought this guy was supposed to be a Christian, what the fuck?

why the fuck would you even want to read that in the first place

>>24566451
It influenced Expedition 33, a great game I’m currently playing.

>>24566402 (OP)
>I thought this guy was supposed to be a Christian
He's a Mormon. They're not Christians. I don't know what woke means at this point but he's kind of a feminist, yes.

>>24566402 (OP)
Christians consist of over a billion people on planet earth and literally hundreds of denominations. It is statistically impossible for all of them to be tradcaths.
Also, do you think it is impossible to have a dissenting view within a religion while also belonging to that religion? Maybe you should try scientology op, that sounds more your speed. Total obedience, total submission, no independent thought.

>>24566653
It is literally and very clearly written in the Bible that homosexual acts are an abomination and condemned by God. It’s not a question of interpretation, it’s literally written there with those exact words, how can someone interpret it as “we must be nice and accept homosexuals”?

>>24566452
You should stick to vidya. Youre clearly too dumb for books

He's a bit woke but more importantly he's a bad author.

>>24566999
Jesus said "love the sinner, hate the sin"

>>24567023
That’s why I specified “homosexual acts”, I didn’t say anything about hating homosexuals.

>>24567021
I thought he was pretty well known as one of the greatest in the fantasy genre.

>>24567030
Yeah but you're also asking how christians could interpret it as "we must be nice"

>>24566402 (OP)
It's a fantasy entertainment book who cares? It also talks about false gods and magic. Go to church hoe.

>>24566653
Psychiatry also forces people to submit to pills. Not a great argument.
Also, not a Scientologist just pointing something out.

>>24567128
Psychiatry is a fucking meme, no serious scholar respect that crap.

>>24567036
We have fallen since the days of Inquisitions and witch hunts

i been watching his lectures on writing on youtube. nothing so far i didn't know but it's only 1/3 of the way through the whole thing.

>>24566402 (OP)
>Is Brandon Sanderson woke?
Yes, in the sense that he's aware of systemic injustices caused by inequality. No, in the sense that he's politically left or aligns with anything associated with it in a truly meaningful way.

>I came across an article saying that there’s a lot of wokeness in that book, including a trans army or some shit like that. Is all that true?
Here's what was in his latest Stormlight Archive book, Wind an Truth:
>a shower sex scene between a married heterosexual couple (although there are no actual sex acts described, nor explicit descriptions of breasts or genitalia)
>A mostly-normal gay man (confirmed gay several books ago)
>A male gay couple (composed of a literally autistic human and a type of alien/metahuman)
>A legally-recognized female-to-male transgender person who volunteers to help a desperate army and is depicted as being particularly strong but still viewed as obviously-female by a male character from a different culture
>a researcher monk that seems to be non-binary that joined their order to escape male attention
>a non-binary magical spirit/fairy AI
Those are the most obvious ones that stand out to me as significant. There may be others I'm forgetting or were featured in previous books more.

>I thought this guy was supposed to be a Christian, what the fuck?
Sanderson is Mormon/Latter-day Saints. Mormons have an extra holy book and set of spiritual dogma that EVERY single other Christian denomination says is heresy. It's considered extremely disingenuous to pretend that Mormons are "actually the same" as other Christians. Mormons tend to align culturally with white American protestant Christians, but they aren't exactly the same. If anything, Mormons are known for being slightly MORE conservative though.

With that out of the way, you may as well read Sanderson's own thoughts on the matter. Here's something he wrote on the subject himself in 2023:
https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/ive-heard-you-are-a-practicing-member-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-what-are-your-opinions-on-gay-rights-particularly-in-light-of-the-churchs-controversial-rel/
It also contains a link to an older blogpost he wrote about Dumbledore from Harry Potter being gay.

Sanderson catches shit from areligious liberal-progressives because they think he won't commit to being openly pro-LGBT. He catches shit from religious conservatives because he has gay people in his books. In his older Dumbledore blogpost, he has this line:
>Point Two: DEPICTION is NOT ENDORSEMENT.
I personally think Sanderson still believes this, even though he walks it back a little publicly. I don't think, as a devout Mormon, that he thinks being gay is morally good or even just benign. He probably teaches all his kids that being gay is a sin and unhealthy. That said, I think he is fully aware that he exists in a world with gay people that he believes are mistreated, and uses his writing to explore this because he's a huge nerd.

>>24567495
Very informative post, thank you, I’ll read the book but with a grain of salt.

>>24567035
He's popular but he's not good. He's like the Michael Bay of authors.

Sanderson wrote an article defending Orson Scott Card on gay marriage, got btfo after and became a progressive mormon. Who knows what he actually believes, it's could very well just be performative shit to keep himself from being canceled.

>>24566402 (OP)
Everything that I've read from and about him suggests that he's incredibly nice to a fault. He strikes me as someone who is a "pleaser." His books follow in that same vein--his broadly liberal approach to social issues has a very "after-school special" vibe to it. So I basically get the impression that he includes a lot of PC stuff in his newer books because he genuinely wants to be thought of as a good and nice person, and that is the kind of thing that good and nice people do. Or in other words, he doesn't want to rock the boat, and these days the boat drifts leftward.

>>24566999
>it's not a question of interpretation
What do you think the Episcopalian Church is? Atheists? They literally believe in the divinity of Jesus, and also do gay marriage. It doesn't make sense to call them not Christians because you're an autistic retard who doesn't know the definition of words and it hurts your feelings.

>>24566999
Leviticus also says no pork, shellfish, or mixed fibers, what's your justification for that particular passage being part of the moral law rather than the ritual law?

He's fat and needs his own pedo hat.

>>24568645
I know multiple people who call themselves Episcopalian but also claim to be liberal atheists. They just like the pretty churches and music.

>>24568698
And do you think that's every single Episcopalian?

>>24566454
Mormons are Christians.

>>24567495
Glad I never supported this retard, then.

>>24568725
Exactly, a Christian is someone who believes in the divinity of Christ. Mormons just happen to believe in the divinity of Joseph Smith as well.

>>24567495
>A mostly-normal gay man
I know it's fantasy, but I can't suspend my disbelief that much

>>24568725
Mormons are non Trinitarian and thus not true Christians.

Who cares, you're reading genreslop, it's not like a bit of wholeness is going to to hurt your pleb mind

>>24568802
The Trinity does not make sense, it's the result of taking a bunch of mutually contradictory verses written by different people and saying "all of these are true, and if you ask how to square them logically you're a heretic".

>>24568802
Trinitarian and Christian are not the same thing.

Didn't he use the lighteyes concept as a bludgeon against white people?

>>24566402 (OP)
Brandon Sanderson is a mormon cultist.

>>24568725
>mormons actually believe this
fucking kek

>>24568892
I thought he was intelligent.

>>24566653
>Christians consist of over a billion people on planet earth and literally hundreds of denominations. It is statistically impossible for all of them to be tradcaths.
There are fat Mexican ladies sacrificing chickens to mother Mary, lmao, all the way down south. “Shamans”. Fucking nuts. Also Vodou is a Catholic laced type of religion. Loa are angels. Even far back enough in medieval history you had folk attempting to summon angels, but also demons, using the power of God. Church masses and the lighting of candles is all too indistinguishable from witchcraft.

>>24566402 (OP)
just read the first one the others are bad

Christianity is for cucks

>>24569997
Why so?

>>24570211
poor world scaling conflicts, character work doesn't get better for most and outright is insultingly trite in some major characters, magic system is a bit too masturbatory like honestly print little symbols and +100 experience points like Dungeon Carl it's egregious, and he can't write intimacy or emotional depth outside of a few good dynamics (i.e. responsible father/cool edgy bro)

>>24566999
You should kill yourself to be with your hateful God sooner

>>24568802
I hope this is a bit and not something you say around actual religious people

>>24566999
Literal and very clear, sure, but in the old testament only.

There are many ways to explain the notable differences between how god is presented in the two texts, but the easiest to swallow is simply: God changed his mind, he became less strict and harsh on certain moral acts that were no longer important to him

>>24568791
Fake news, Renarin isn't normal he's canonically an autist

>>24566402 (OP)
/lit/ is a woke board

>>24571178
Homos are the most hateful people I've ever met.
>>24571586
Not true, reddit.

>>24566402 (OP)
i found that series gay and i love genereslop. if you want party of heroes saves the world stuff, you should read the belgariad.

>>24566653
>>24566454
Picrel.
>>24568230
What has OSC released of note in the past 20 years? Also based Mormon schlock thread.