Far from it! There are multiple references to the former throughout, particularly such books as “The War Hound and the World’s Pain”, “The City in the Autumn Stars”, “Behold the Man”, “Breakfast in the Ruins”, “The Eternal Champion” itself, “The Blood Red Game” (aka “The Sundered Worlds”)… not to mention the Cornelius books, where Jeremiah Cornelius himself was (at least in one version out of many he has had) apparently attached to the Catholic Church in an official capacity… which may explain his complex ally/enemy relationship with Bishop Beesley and the like as well as having the tell-tale initials, J.C., occasionally called “the Messiah of the Age of Science”, who often sees himself as Harlequin the Trickster, but is honestly closer to Pierrot the Fool). The above makes for an odd view - having read the bulk of Moorcock’s work, he certainly doesn’t avoid the subject of either the god of the Christian religion, nor Christ, nor, for that matter, any other deity where such is germane to what he is addressing either dramatically or thematically.
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