I was finding yall's debate interesting with both of you making decent points up until this.
@Australianbirdfruit had literally 2 sentences out of like 40 relating to wokeness - hardly "all [they] are talking about."
If anything the fruit is clear that the wokeness is merely a symptom. You could take out the lesbians and most of his points would still stand.
What points? Everything that didn't have to do with religion or lesbians was just stating personal opinions like it's mediocre and shallow.
Yes, the vain wish for a miracle to save them from death through religion, for which the church act as an obvious culprit of dangerous and radicalizing temptation.
It's a small island. The church is the pillar of their community that holds everything together.
It's in the center of it all because it is central to the islanders.
It could've been an island where everyone is Wiccan and everything happens in whatever churches Wiccans have if that wasn't weird and not relatable.
The admiration of John Pruitt was shown to be almost cult like, as is only befitting the leader of a Christian congregation in current year, of course.
Only Bev does this - and only to secure her own status.
She's exploiting the church for it. It's not damning for the church, it's damning for her.
Women like that exist. If this took place in an ultra liberal city (which wouldn't work since the show needs a small isolated community to work), she'd be the big LGBT ally, constantly virtue signaling about how terrible bigots are.
And when did the inhabitants ever save the drunk? Do you mean "save" as in that they didn't outright excommunicate Joe Collie? Talk about stretching it.
I'm talking about the priest. His Christian-motivated actions to help him were the only lifeline he got thrown.
Islam doesn't serve to make the cop an outsider: the sheriffs suffrage through evil hwhite mans evil racism forced him out on the island
That's the reason why he's on the island in the first place even though he doesn't fit into it.
He's the outsider who didn't grew up on the island and doesn't even take part in the church service like most islanders do.
Again, it all serves to make him the outsider that he is. Yeah, his backstory is a bit pandering but it's not saying "Islam is great - this wouldn't have happened if we all prayed to Allah".
, and while being there he wouldn't set his foot in a church as it was beneath his faith, despite the inhabitants wanting him there, not necessarily as a believer, but as part of the collective. When his son is drawn to the church's increasing fervor of belief in miracles, the sheriff very distraught that his son would abandon the muslim faith (the final, and thus correct, message from God, as he says). The mother had paid with her life to stand up for "her dignity" and honor (how very muslim-like), and his son shall not defile her noble sacrifice by flirting with the church.
Yes, after his wife died he became very devout. It's how this character is dealing with her death. It says something about who he is, nothing about Islam or Christianity in general.
His heroic role overall, and nonsensical monologue about hwhite mans racism out of nowhere in one of the later episodes (something even self-professed "progressives" claim to be bewildered about in other forums such as moviechat.org), is further serving to cement the islamic faith as being somehow more reasonable and grounded.
He's a cop. He dies pretty miserable, achieving nothing. Islam didn't help him or anyone - it just put him into a more adversarial role to the church by making him an outsider to it.
It's almost admirable how you can claim to have seen the show yet still come out of the experience not having been able to read the scenes beyond the most surface level.
You're the one calling the show shallow. Shouldn't there be only a surface level then?
I'm amazed how you can only see "church" and "something bad happens", completely ignore what the show is about, and cry how it's anti-Christian because of it.
I'd argue it's heavily implied to be the main villain. There are far too many distinct undertones for this not to be the case. Had they treated all faiths with equal amount of criticism for nurturing unreasonable and potentially dangerous beliefs, I would have not had an issue whatsoever.
So when the show is not explicitly telling you "hey, muslims do bad things too", it must be pro Islam propaganda?
Still, the TV-series biggest sin is that it's boorish and mediocre, as I've said many times already. Your fixation on my criticism of wokeness is telling of your degeneracy as a furry.
What am I supposed to argue with a simple opinion like "it's mediocre"?
