Pondering on religion in fantasy
Reading fantasy, I keep wondering again and again about why it is so obviously lacking religion in the characters' worldview. I mean, most fantasy is quasi-medieval, and you'd think belief would be a necessary part of most characters' mindest, and yet most often the church is only viewed by the characters as greedy, political or something... Right now I can only remember two fantasy series dealing with religion, Dragonlance (which I mostly don't like and feel leaning a bit too much in the other, sanctimonious, direction) and Katherine Kurtz's Deryni, which I do like quite a lot.