lolarity!

[aesc]

BRB, loling foreverrrrrr.

Comments

[just_ruth]

Now, I fully believe Kripke wrote Season 5 to piss me off, but against Christianity? Uhn, no, fighting demons, saving lives, serving others - very Christian values.

Troll, says I.

[aesc]

Honestly, I've heard "X is going to hell because X does/likes Y" so many times it's kind of an empty threat at this point. Especially when it's coming from someone commenting on an entertainment website. And really, according to this sort of person I've done so many hellworthy things that I'm sure they more than cancel out any redeeming qualities. The best I can hope for is that the circle I'm assigned to isn't too far down.

It is kind of interesting, his choice of the word "bad." I mean, show quality is usually a very subjective judgment, but here... is he assessing the show's narrative quality? Its moral or religious value? Both? Are fans of Supernatural going to Hell because it hasn't won an Emmy for Best Prime-Time Drama?

[just_ruth]

At the risk of a bad pun, damned if I know. :D

[aesc]

I wonder if there's anything in the Ten Commandments, Leviticus, or the gospels about how poorly-scripted television shows are an affront to God.

[serialkarma]

This reminds me of this dude in college who objected to Monty Python's Life of Brian because it was blasphemous. *sigh*

[just_ruth]

Well, it is blasphemous, but I object more to the fact that it's not funny.

[aesc]

"Yes, we're all different!"

"I'm not."

[serialkarma]

heeeeee.

[kimberweeme]

This sort of thinking irks me so much. I'm a librarian in a backwards suburb of a big city and I run across this all the time with the extreme Christians in the community. Mostly it's the parents who won't let there kids read fantasy books because "magic isn't Christian", but it all amounts to the same ludicrous way of thinking. Learn how to separate tv (and books) from reality, people!

[aesc]

It really makes me froth at the mouth. Really, anyone with that sort of literalist mindset is impossible to deal with, because for them everything is literal and real. And simply bringing up something is automatically advocating for it, so Harry Potter is a treatise on how to do magic and the religious worldview of Supernatural is obviously trying to subvert people from the Word of God.

Fiction: You're thinking about it wrong.

[madeline871]

Burn in hell for watching a TV show? Yeah, I'm thinking troll in the dungeon.

[aesc]

I would have thought there were much worse things a person could do that would qualify them for hell, but I guess the bar is set very low.

[love_jackianto]

Wow! How exactly does the show go against Christianity? Sam and Dean save people and Cas even had his faith in his Father tested in Season Five. Is it because SPN deals with Christianity at all and turned the angels into dicks? Personally I like that the SPN angels (Cas being the exception) don't really care about humanity. That always seemed very Old Testament to me.

[aesc]

I wonder if it's the "God doesn't care about you all, losers" and the more or less complete absence of Christ that does it.

[love_jackianto]

'the more or less complete absence of Christ that does it.'
I once heard someone (who knows more about this stuff than I do) say that Joshua was supposed to be Christ, but agreed on all points.

[aesc]

It's interesting, because Jesus is the romanized/Latin form of Yeshua (the Hebrew name Joshua comes from), but IIRC Joshua's referred to as an angel in SPN, which Jesus isn't. Maybe he was meant to be a fusion, or else just SPN's "version" of Christ.

It's kind of cool to think about.