Someone write me up a fanfiction for the movie 'God's Not Dead' where Kevin Sorbo is Hercules in disguise among mortals.
Thousands of years after the end of classical Greek Culture and the decline of its various religious traditions, the battle of Corinth, Antony's defeat at Actium, the destruction of the Serapeum, he wanders alone, in a Christian universe devoid of living divinity.
The motivation for his actions could be fleshed out in a way that was much more convincing than anything shown on screen in the film. By getting his students to deny the Christian God he hopes to prepare the way for the return of his father and the others, who disappeared with the destruction of their temples.
He doesn't know where they went or why he's been left, with only a shadow of his former strength, but he has dreams where they've returned, after the death of God, and they once more inhabit the rocks, fields, the air, and the spaces in between.
You could include very heavy handed references to Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' as well as that episode of Xena where she saves Santa Clause. This thing is writing itself in my head right now.
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