I skipped this one. I'll probably watch it eventually, since I hear it has Gabriel and Lucifer in it, but I've been hearing so much about the ill handling of the other gods, I have trepidations.
I want to see Coptic exorcisms. Not that I know anything at all about Coptic Christianity, but it'd be neat. Or Ethiopian exorcisms. Nestorian ones! Even if it were an entirely Judaeo-Christian mythology, the options are many and exotic (I don't know a lot about Judaism, I confess, but it's older than Christianity, so I assume it must be culturally even richer and more diverse). If I end up writing a worldwide network of exorcists from wildly different Christian churches, all the blame is on you.
All my bitching aside, it was a fun episode, and overall I think you should watch it. Just... be prepared to facepalm a lot.
I will take the blame and be proud of it! I just think we should lever all the cool, obscure, and mystic traditions if we're going to have outright Christianity (since, thinking about it, Jewish tradition doesn't have exorcisms/demonic possession/Lucifer, unless I am sorely mistaken).
There are so many kinds of Christian from all over the world, it would really be a shame not to use them! All the Orthodox traditions, Latin American Catholicism with its mixed-in elements of indigenous religion, Coptic, Gnostic; you could even have remnants of old heresies. (As for whether Jewish tradition has those things, perhaps it is a question for a Jew, or else Wikipedia.)
Your icon is lovely, where does that guy come from?
I want to see Coptic exorcisms. Not that I know anything at all about Coptic Christianity, but it'd be neat. Or Ethiopian exorcisms. Nestorian ones! Even if it were an entirely Judaeo-Christian mythology, the options are many and exotic (I don't know a lot about Judaism, I confess, but it's older than Christianity, so I assume it must be culturally even richer and more diverse).
If I end up writing a worldwide network of exorcists from wildly different Christian churches, all the blame is on you.
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I will take the blame and be proud of it! I just think we should lever all the cool, obscure, and mystic traditions if we're going to have outright Christianity (since, thinking about it, Jewish tradition doesn't have exorcisms/demonic possession/Lucifer, unless I am sorely mistaken).
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There are so many kinds of Christian from all over the world, it would really be a shame not to use them! All the Orthodox traditions, Latin American Catholicism with its mixed-in elements of indigenous religion, Coptic, Gnostic; you could even have remnants of old heresies. (As for whether Jewish tradition has those things, perhaps it is a question for a Jew, or else Wikipedia.)
Your icon is lovely, where does that guy come from?
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