I dunno it makes me think of Pratchett's take on religion, and Granny Weatherwax's speech to Mightily Oats in Carpe Jugulum Defying his expectations of her as a grumpy atheist with no time for the church She doesn't hold him in contempt for having too much faith but too little
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Christians being bad advertisements for Christianity If you really truly believed in God, or gods If you thought the creator of the universe, the architect of reality, the one who set the stars in their place in the sky, CARED about the shit we do You wouldn't do all this shit
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All the fear, and the resentment, and the petty hatred She says it with both scorn and pity If you really, really believed that He cared about you, He loved you like a father loves a child, and if you called out to Him you knew He would come You'd be happier, you'd be better
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Not just to comfort her generically but to tell her that yes, her therapist really DID get caught in traffic. The elegance of that as a storytelling moment is off the goddamn charts
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And a couple of pages earlier, you can see the therapist pleading with her on his cellphone.pic.twitter.com/TXzlvHmboq
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Yep, crying stuff not just the All Star one ether.pic.twitter.com/g0F6SQbjNA
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The page in question. This is what Superman is about.pic.twitter.com/GOG8f80py2
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Never ceases to make me tear up. This is the kind of stuff that helped me when I was going through stuff like that...even in fiction, displays of kindness, even small things, gave me that little extra to keep going.
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