Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-35245452-20180417025815/@comment-5896827-20180712051012

I may not be Muslim, but I am Christian so I can view this similarly to Sam. To me, there is only one God. The word God means to me: omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, uncaused, morally perfect, immutable, eternal, immaterial and personal.

If I am to believe that, in the Riordan Verse, Allah/God/Yahweh exists then yes, I'd be of the same opinion as Sam. Calling Norse gods gods is a misnomer at best. The Norse gods are no closer to being God than a human or even an ant. There is no comparing finite beings with an infinite one.

The idea you can interchangably use the term 'God' for an All-Powerful, morally perfect being for semi-powerful beings that rape their sisters and die when stabbed by mistletoe is... rather silly.

Honestly, this is a case that can be explained by the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant. A group of blind men were inspecting an elephant. The ones at the trunk felt it and said, "This being is like a snake!" The blind men at the side of the elephant felt it and said, "This being is like a wall!" And the men at the tail felt it and said, "No, this being is like a rope!"

None of them were really wrong. They all spoke the truth. However, they were limited to only their perspective.

For Sam, God means the All-Powerful Allah so of course the Norse aren't gods to her. For someone like Magnus, who is an Atheist, god doesn't mean anything to him so he can readily accept the pagan definition of god (which is a powerful, but limited being with human flaws). They're are saying the same word but they both have completely different meanings attached to it. Like how the image of a dog may evoke fear in one person and a sense of companionship in another.