God/MaryOTP4EVAH!!!1111
It's quite astonishing that this essay by flamingsword hasn't been MQ'ed after three days:
As Kathy Mar sings, "Humans wrote the Bible, God wrote the world." And that's deep and everything, but as a corollary that means that the Bible is fanfiction...[and] Jesus is the biggest Mary-Sue ever.
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Which means that religious wars are fandom wank. And isn't "Christianity" just a candy-coated way of saying, "I ship God/Mary non-con/chan-preg"?
rexluscus had a particularly choice response to this, as well:
It makes the Judaism/Christianity/Islam conflict so clear to me now: the latter two are just a couple of snotty Suethors who think they have the better OMC, and they both hate Judaism because Judaism brings the OC-hate and only has time for fic about canon characters.
As Kathy Mar sings, "Humans wrote the Bible, God wrote the world." And that's deep and everything, but as a corollary that means that the Bible is fanfiction...[and] Jesus is the biggest Mary-Sue ever.
[...]
Which means that religious wars are fandom wank. And isn't "Christianity" just a candy-coated way of saying, "I ship God/Mary non-con/chan-preg"?
rexluscus had a particularly choice response to this, as well:
It makes the Judaism/Christianity/Islam conflict so clear to me now: the latter two are just a couple of snotty Suethors who think they have the better OMC, and they both hate Judaism because Judaism brings the OC-hate and only has time for fic about canon characters.