Thread:Dr0Shadow/@comment-1988716-20141106110347/@comment-1988716-20141110102342

I feel the need to say, again, that most religious jokes in Rapture do not make fun of religion, and the ones that do make fun of the un-essential parts of religion as an idea. Rapture's actually the most religious story I've ever written, and it can be boiled down to an atheist coming to understand why religion exists and where he needs it in his life. He just doesn't become a Christian, he lets his emotions and fears take its place and learns to respect other beliefs.

Hating the Rapture Cycle with that context would only be hating an idea he made up.

I won't push on the Rapture thing, but I will push on the "he has real life to deal with" part. To judge like that, to dismiss aspects of life that some consider to be genuine meditation, that implies a hubristic quality. What makes his life more real than mine? The Fear Mythos isn't escapism, the Fear Mythos is art, and art has always taken precedence in my priorities to most other facets, though I don't think anyone any less for not being the same-- this is my approach to my life. And my life is real life too.

So what I'm trying to say here is judging is the real blasphemy, for it implies the judge knows better about other people's lives than they do. And that's not what Jesus taught. Does he know better than Jesus?

I don't want to force him to read my stuff, and I don't care if he doesn't read it. But I do ask he come to terms with that. Hating a story, even if it were the most insulting and offensive story in the world, is no way to live. I learned that the hard way.

PS: The post-rock joke is making fun of post-rock, not the Bible.