User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Is there religion in RWBY?/@comment-189.134.157.195-20150606022950/@comment-24891101-20150606070923

No they don't. Translation convention.

It is an Earthlike planet. Many fictional settings have such things as Earth animals and board games. It is a standard aspect of fantasy. I can equally apply the notion of translation convention to these, arguing that things are sufficiently broadly similar that substituting familiar things to get the point across is worth the fidelity sacrifice.

One can even argue that humans should not exist.

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I say religion does exist. It is the natural impulse of humanity to anthropomorphize nature and overexert pareidolia. This is plain to anyone who has made any degree of study of humans.

Christianity, however, does not exist. There is no Bethlehem, there is no Christian god, there is no Pope.