add that to the hits package

[musesfool]

Wow, the NFL really got Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to agree to be the Super Bowl half-time show this year (well, technically next year)? I mean, I knew they were talking about it, but Bob Costas just announced it, and wow. WOW

Comments

[ratcreature]

But isn't that just a nomenclature thing? I mean, obviously Dean has no problem to believe in all kinds of supernatural phenomena, including really powerful entities like the Trickster. So he just can't ever be an atheist in the sense many RL atheists are, who reject all supernatural as something lacking evidence, because in SPN you don't actually lack that evidence what with all the critters, malicious spirits, demons, proven afterlife and so on.

If someone in our universe believed in something like the SPN Trickster nobody would call them atheist, because they believe in a powerful, personified thing that can alter reality on its whim and reset time.

And along with all hunters Dean also still has to subscribe to the idea that the supernatural parts of the universe follow some kind of order, otherwise it would be pointless to consult books, keep journals for ways to deal with it, use rituals and so on. A belief that in the SPN universe again is based on evidence, whereas in RL any supernatural laws and rituals are only speculation. But the supernatural in SPN follows possibly random but still reliable rules, so if not an underlying organization there needs to be at the very least something like a setup that enough belief by humans wills something into existence to account for that consistency.

Both together, i.e. belief in powerful, supernatural entities together with rules to deal with them, is generally enough to count as "religion" in our reality's framework. In SPN OTOH the "supernatural" phenomena and entities are actually observable and reproducible, so it's kind of doubtful whether they still count as "supernatural" at all or could be seen as natural things still lacking a comprehensive framework for understanding, that also make all kinds of spurious claims about their supposed origins for their own gains.