User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Is there religion in RWBY?/@comment-24891101-20150606002952/@comment-24891101-20150606010322

And? I contend that the theology itself is boring. The trappings and religion, the church itself, obviously often takes inspiration from Christianity, given that it's the most successful religion on the planet, and also quite familiar to writers. While that gets old too, that's not what I'm talking about. Broad organizational similarities are fine. Holy orders and monasteries and such are fine. Those are structural details. Cosmetic and theological details are another matter.

I too want them to look far afield to come up with a mythological framework which makes sense given the setting. As long as they don't just recreate an existing mythology with serial numbers filed off, it's fine, so long as they make it work in the setting, giving it a rationale for existing.