(Not even saying this as a person who believes in God, mind)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
YMMV but even though Supernatural has been more bad than good for a looong time "Don't Call Me Shurley" is one of my fav hours of TV ever
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And only has impact for the ppl who stuck around for all the cheesiness, especially the whole "Where is God?" debate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I do enjoy stories that get long enough to notice their own plot holes and then dive into them to explain them
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
I find that hour to be a very satisfying dark deconstruction of the idea of the Incarnation and "God is dead"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
What does God do when he wants to run away from being God but he can't because it's in his nature?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Where there's nowhere to run to because everything that exists is his creation?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
He switches roles from God to Prophet. "I didn't invent the words, I just write them down"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's an explicitly meta bit about creators refusing to take responsibility for creation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The whole idea that you can never speak to God directly, only through messengers and proxies, bc he's too holy
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Maybe that's true, or maybe the messenger is him but he just doesn't want to own up to his crap
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I do think a lot about The Last Temptation, and that song What If God Was One of Us, and the similar song Human by OneRepublic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Humans fantasize about having the power of God, God fantasizes about being human and powerless
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