So Supernatural’s helping me understand religion.
Because it’s not really a secret that I have a ton of problems with religion, Southern Baptist Christianity far, far in the forefront.
And this episode happened four seasons/years ago so I think I don't have to whisper.
Dean, basically a chaotic atheist, sold his soul for his brother’s life. As he’d just discovered, like, a year/a season earlier demons actually existed, he doesn’t exactly have a full idea of what he's signed up for. And a damned soul tells him what Hell is really like.
And for a split second I got it.
Because she’s telling Dean that it strips away your humanity slowly and painfully--over centuries, if you fight it--but it always wins, and you become just a focus of pure evil and spite.
And she says this in the blankest, surest tone, and I got it.
I finally heard it like a person would from a priest or a pastor or any of those other people I don’t trust because here it’s a crap-shoot if they want to damn you or help you or badtouch you and I got it.
I mean, it didn’t change what I was certain of, because the thoughts I have on that are many, varied, and perhaps bewildering, but it made me understand the path, if you will.
Because probably everyone shouldn’t form their religious identities over other people’s sick childhoods colliding with theirs and various medical disasters.
And this episode happened four seasons/years ago so I think I don't have to whisper.
Dean, basically a chaotic atheist, sold his soul for his brother’s life. As he’d just discovered, like, a year/a season earlier demons actually existed, he doesn’t exactly have a full idea of what he's signed up for. And a damned soul tells him what Hell is really like.
And for a split second I got it.
Because she’s telling Dean that it strips away your humanity slowly and painfully--over centuries, if you fight it--but it always wins, and you become just a focus of pure evil and spite.
And she says this in the blankest, surest tone, and I got it.
I finally heard it like a person would from a priest or a pastor or any of those other people I don’t trust because here it’s a crap-shoot if they want to damn you or help you or badtouch you and I got it.
I mean, it didn’t change what I was certain of, because the thoughts I have on that are many, varied, and perhaps bewildering, but it made me understand the path, if you will.
Because probably everyone shouldn’t form their religious identities over other people’s sick childhoods colliding with theirs and various medical disasters.