The whole death-worshipper thing in this fable is so deeply flawed that's its fatal to the whole argument. The author frames the "death worshipper" as wrong be

The whole death-worshipper thing in this fable is so deeply flawed that's its fatal to the whole argument. The author frames the "death worshipper" as wrong because the dragon is an obviously artificial threat that came along one day and imposed its will on humanity, that there was a time before the dragon that the worshippers are ignoring. As an analogy for death, this is a crock, frankly.