I probably shouldn’t attempt to discuss a book I haven’t read. What happened was this. I watched most of The Stand, and later I ran into a Christian who is a very big fan of King. I related my impression—i.e.: that King was writing about very committed, devoted believers in what amounted to a world without God, and the friend told me I nailed it. So there is at least one King fan who is very familiar with The Stand who buys my impression of it. On this thread, it flew like a lead dirigible. Oh well; win some, lose some.
I appreciate your commentary on it, though, since you are one of the more familiar people with the story. Thanks for offering a helpful perspective.
No prob looking back on it youu got a point.
That's not the case at all. In The Stand, both God and evil are very real and there are very few committed believers.
A couple of instances that I can think of where God shows his existence: 1) He responds to Mother Abigail's prayers to drive away the weasels that were attacking her and 2) showing Mother Abigail where the people should congregate. None of the characters in the story knew it, but Boulder was the one city that had been pretty much cleared of people, so there weren't the problems there associated with tons of dead people lying around. When the plague was spreading, there was a panic spread that it may be caused by some nearby government facility and the bulk of the people fled from that area.