I want to bake you all cookies

[jmtorres]

I've seen a lot of people having... upset reactions at Supernatural's portrayal of heaven and the message from God. It's not a reaction I had, because I'm not Christian and this is all just storytime for me, but it's a reaction I empathize with, because Supernatural made a run on things dear to my spirituality back in Mystery Spot.

I follow Loki, and I completely accidentally and unknowingly picked a Trickster episode to cut my teeth on (this sort of irony happens to me a lot). I watched Mystery Spot with growing discomfort at the way Supernatural's Trickster was and was not like my Trickster, culminating in feeling deeply wounded when the Trickster told Sam he wasn't fun any more. That Loki might get bored of me is one of my deepest worries, because it's really the number one reason he'd stop hanging around, and that's not something I want.

So I get it. I do. Have some cookies, curl up with me, and try to keep fixed in mind that this is storytime: fictional show is fictional, no matter how many names they borrow from places that matter to us.

Comments

[viridian5]

I have a Christian base... beneath the Deism and some Wiccan leanings... and I was fine with last night's ideas of heaven and God. This is what Team Free Will is all about, thinking for yourself and having to save yourself.

I love the idea of their Axis Mundi as a road, though I think the Winchesters spend a lot of time on bigger highways than two-lane asphalt when they have to get places, especially if they're in a hurry.


Think to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax!" For Mystery Science Theater 3000!

[shirozora]

Being nonreligious I wasn't so much bowled over by the show's portrayal of religion and biblical mythology so much as what they're doing to Team Free Will. Is there really a backlash going on because of our (secondhand) introduction to God?

[jmtorres]

Not so much backlash as "ow, why did you do that to me, show?"

[shirozora]

Ah. Ngl, I'm kind of shocked at how emotionally invested I am in this show, and that's when it gets really hard to step back and say, "Damn it, it's fiction, stop it!"

[tamtrible]

Well... there's the possibility that it's just a The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways kind of thing... that, with Divine Foreknowledge (tm), God *knows* that the boys do have what it takes to end the apocalypse... but it would somehow break reality or whatever for Her to intervene too much directly.

That is, I read it less as "I don't care" or "I want the Apocalypse to happen", and more as "I gave you what you need to get the job done, now do it already."

[alexseanchai]

That's just about exactly the conclusion I came to a day or two ago over in niqaeli's journal: Joshua's saying God never gives anyone too heavy a cross to bear, and God already gave them each other and that ought to be enough, and if Team Free Will was spending less time looking for God and more looking to each other, they'd be a lot nearer the answer they need.