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It's God's will?
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This is easily the most infuriating thing Christian’s (and other abrahamic religions,) do.
The book of job is a Bronze Age attempt at tackling the problem of evil. Basically, through its narrative god fucks up the life of his most faithful servant- literally destroying everything but the servant himself…. Over a fucking bet…
The justification of which is quite literally “who the fuck do you think you are? You can’t understand, you’re an idiot. Shut up and worship me”
Classic narcissist abuser behavior.
Yet somehow, to their eyes, every good thing is from god because they deserved it, and every bad thing is from god because “sinners deserved it too.”
There’s a quote from Babylon 5, where Marcus says:
I like Babylon 5. Was kind of cheesy but I liked it anyway.
I don’t know what you’re talking about…
Londo was being totally serious- the Hokie-Pokey ***DOES NOT MEAN! A! THING!
If you’re talking about the CGI… keep in mind it was late-90’s sci-fi. They literally revolutionized CGI for TV.
(And the big battle with the league vs vorlons vs shadows? Held the record for most starships on the screen until Star Trek turned petty and did the Operation Return in DS9 *just to take it back.)
Bab5 definitely had its one liner humor, but it also hit hard in other ways. (Parliament of Dreams, the ending for example, coupled with delenn’s rant another time about what makes humans special: we build communities. It’s that diversity that makes us strong.)
(It also easily has the two Scariest Women of SciFi:tm:, one of whom is normally incredibly mild-mannered and the other is career military just doing her job and trying to do the right thing.)
Wow, Babylon 5 is on Tubi, free with commercials. I am going to watch again.