> If you think "Carpe Jugulum" looks sarcastically at religion, Pratchett's "Small Gods" will just about make you burst into flames. I thought "Small Gods" was quite a departure from his usual style -- just as funny, but in a *much* more serious way.

Actually, I think Pratchett's "Feet of Clay" would be the one that arguably has the most antireligious theme. Dorfl's evolution from a creature that unthinkingly follows the scripture in its head to a "ceramic atheist" who owns himself and has no master is pretty humanist. Of course, that doesn't mean Pratchett is a humanist; as you say, his work mainly attacks certain attitudes and practices that seem to accompany religion, but it seems to me that "Feet" is his only novel that goes after religion itself in this way.


On a completely unrelated note, "THIS looks like a job for Emergency Pants!" is the best line ever.

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