POSTED BY: zeke023
UPDATED: Monday, October 11, 2004 15:07
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Originally posted by Ghoulman:

Oh, and from what I have read, it seems the "hand of God" shows up in Buffy, subtley of course, four times. Is that count correct?

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I just saw the book What would Buffy Do? on my Youth Pastors desk. I laughed out loud. :)
But we're a fairly liberal church.

I'm not sure I follow the apperances of the Hand of God... you mean like when it snowed in order to save Angel from the dawn and stuff like that?

Joss's world is very similar to a Christian view of our own... it's dark and full of evil and you only really see good when you REALLY need it.. and it's often subtle and in the form of what you'd least expect.

But there are quick mentions to vampires bragging about having been at the crucifixion, Willow (a jew) makes scapulas (a virgin mary pendant) for all the characters in the first season, crosses repel vampires regardless of the faith of whoever holds it, crosses burn vampires and holy water does too.

Many vampire myths (such as white wolf) have gone the extra mile to say that supernatural faith repels vampires... but in Joss's universe it's only Christian icons and symbols that work. That's somewhat significant, no?

THe world is more Christo-centric than makes me comfortable (being mostly universalist, despite my Christian faith of practice).

However - SAFE from Firefly... does seem to suggest that religion is more for just believing in something. Firelfy treats religion very differently... but Joss is never irreverant.

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I think it's just evil and sneaky of you to give the thread no title so we all have to read it. :P

-Taylor

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