"imagine cursing a fig tree lmao. back in my day we cursed bloodlines"
The Great HippoToday at 6:03 PM
like maybe a little bit
a little is fine just, i can see it easily going overboard, especially if you start attacking the bible's problems
haha, yeah
"a fucking fig tree"
or going after jesus being all pacifist
like haha maybe he's so angry because
oh my god
he's angry that the judeo-christian god re-invented himself
that's how he thinks of it
"i knew him back before he was too cool for human sacrifice and genocide"
it's like
to him jesus is yoko ono and original god is john lenin
jesus broke up the beatles
jesus fucking ruined it
The Great HippoToday at 6:06 PM
like in actuality what's pissing him off here is that the judeo-christian god modernized
and he's railing against the fact that he can't survive in modernity
but that's kind of a fun way to think of it
part of the problem with that though (and i admit it's a take i like but still) is that you genuinely want to avoid, like…
if i read this article, i should get the sense that god (the judeo-christian god) may or may not exist
like, the judeo-christian god isn't a 'character' here
he's a concept
what i mean is he shouldn't be anthropomorpholized like perun is
or however you say that word
because 1) it's funnier to imagine perun, a god, raging against this entity that's portrayed as more a force of nature than just another god who he doesn't get along with, 2) it makes perun more sympathetic (by making him the underdog; because he's railing against the universe, not a person), and 3) it avoids being critical toward christianity (by anthropomorphizing their god and portraying them in a negative or critical way)
also because perun is treating the judeo-christian god as a person you can have a beef with
but the reader is seeing, simultaneously, that this god isn't, like, a person you can walk up to and yell at
but perun is acting like he is
like because to perun that's precisely what he is
a god is a person you can have an argument with
but to christians, you don't. have, like. a back-and-forth argument with god
you don't have beef with god, or hold grudges, or treat him like this dude who snubbed you once
yes but to him the world is a person and to all of us it's the world
if that makes sense
like that's a funny contrast
you don't have to make this like, overt, it's just a thing to keep in mind
it's funny that he thinks of everything in terms of personhood, like that's a very old-school god-thing to do
like if lightning strikes you, that's because the lightning (or the god of lightning) is snubbing you
that's his universe
if worshippers forget him, that's because that jesus-fucker is stealing them
KindlyTurtleClemToday at 6:15 PM
Can you imagine him materializing in the electrical wires near the telephone pole of a Church just to yell epiphets at the Church itself. Not at a specific priest or worshipper, but the Church's cross, frescoes, balcony, garden.
because he's too busy personifying things
The Great HippoToday at 6:15 PM
right yes like
he thinks you yell at the church because the church is where god lives
KindlyTurtleClemToday at 6:15 PM
COME OUT HERE YOU COWARD
The Great HippoToday at 6:16 PM
like i can imagine him showing up at the church and demanding to see "this cowardly jesus"
The Great HippoToday at 6:16 PM
and a priest trying to explain to him that jesus lives in our hearts
and him saying "THEN I SHALL TEAR HIM OUT"
KindlyTurtleClemToday at 6:16 PM
MATERIALIZE LIKE THE SHEEP YOU SUPPOSEDLY LEAD. DONT HIDE BEHIND YOUR FOLLOWERS, WHO MIGHT I ADD, ARENT EVEN IN MID-ORGY DURING WORSHIP.
Oh god, that's the best
The Great HippoToday at 6:17 PM
i guess kind of like that character from guardians of the galaxy
who doesn't get metaphor
like, to a god, where everything works in this sort of magical, personal way, metaphor typically isn't metaphor
if someone says "he turned into a wolf" they typically mean he literally turned into a wolf
bbl
