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Heroes v Villains | Period 1 | Wednesday | July 14
Loki was actually up and standing when the students started filing into the room today. He looked a little cranky but that was mostly due to spending most of last night dreaming about Bartleby. Look, he loved that guy but those dreams just needed to fucking stop. He didn't need people thinking he was fantasizing about his long dead friend. It wasn't like that.
It wasn't. Shut up.
"Religion," he started once everyone had settled down, "in the simplest of terms, is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. That's the simplest fucking terms. Obviously, that definition has grown and branched out and trying to define religion these days is near fucking impossible. Needless to say, religion is something that divides even the most harmonious of societies. People are going to have different beliefs whether their king/czar/dictator/president whatever likes it or not. Nothing can stop a person from believing in what they want to believe save for fucking extreme measures."
On this island, he suspected extreme measures might be a little more commonplace. "Christianity is one of the world's bigger religions and that has about a billion fucking branches. New ones pop up all the goddamn time. It's a wonder God can keep up what between that and His fucking skee ball habit. So, biggest heroes of Christianity? Moses, Jesus, Noah, Martin Luther, and Elijah. Now, why the fuck are they heroes? Because they listened to God. They listened to the guy who lives in fucking heaven and that makes them heroes. Why? Who said that God's the one we should all be listening to? God is an omnipotent, amazing person who most people think of as always right. That's just been what they've been told, passed down from generation from generation. From someone who knows, He wasn't always fucking right. God has screwed up. He's not human but He can be fucking fallible. He used to be full of fucking vengeance. I know that. I did His work during that time. God could be just as hell bent on fucking destruction as Satan, my friend. What's so heroic about that?"
Hopefully God didn't smite him for this. It was for education! Education! The bad guy of Christianity is Satan or, in easier terms, the fucking Devil. He's the bad guy. Why? Because God said so? Who the fuck put God in charge? Satan's not a nice guy, no. He's a fucking prick but he does his job well. That's probably why there are people out there that worship him. Satanists. So, what's making their belief system better than yours or mine? Typically, people think of Satanists as following the personification of evil, that being the devil. What if they're just following something they believe in more than God's word? Why the fuck do they get faulted for believing in that yet we're tolerant of all other sorts of religions with questionable tactics. Cults can exist and worship easier than Satanists. It doesn't make fucking sense."
Satan was a fucking prick. But, again, education! Loki wanted to see if he could get people thinking. "Satan's a different kind of thinker. The people that follow him, they're called villains. Why? What's the difference in one of you deciding you liked what Satan preached rather than what one of the many branches of Christianity preached? Does that make you incurably evil? Think about that. If you choose to worship, to join some religion that is seen as evil, you're basically being ostracized and called a villain for your beliefs. You're a villain, you have no worth, you're going to persecuted. Why does that make fucking sense?"
Religion, apparently, was something Loki could talk a lot about. Anyone that knew him should know why. "For today's activity, I want to tell me how you would feel if, after knowing someone for years, becoming close to them and trusting them, you find out their beliefs follow that of Satan or whomever might be the evil force of religion in your world. They've never been evil or violent towards you but they choose to believe something with a nasty stigma attached. Are you going to accept that? Or are you going to automatically label them a villain because they don't believe and follow the so called heroic branches of religion?"
It wasn't. Shut up.
"Religion," he started once everyone had settled down, "in the simplest of terms, is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. That's the simplest fucking terms. Obviously, that definition has grown and branched out and trying to define religion these days is near fucking impossible. Needless to say, religion is something that divides even the most harmonious of societies. People are going to have different beliefs whether their king/czar/dictator/president whatever likes it or not. Nothing can stop a person from believing in what they want to believe save for fucking extreme measures."
On this island, he suspected extreme measures might be a little more commonplace. "Christianity is one of the world's bigger religions and that has about a billion fucking branches. New ones pop up all the goddamn time. It's a wonder God can keep up what between that and His fucking skee ball habit. So, biggest heroes of Christianity? Moses, Jesus, Noah, Martin Luther, and Elijah. Now, why the fuck are they heroes? Because they listened to God. They listened to the guy who lives in fucking heaven and that makes them heroes. Why? Who said that God's the one we should all be listening to? God is an omnipotent, amazing person who most people think of as always right. That's just been what they've been told, passed down from generation from generation. From someone who knows, He wasn't always fucking right. God has screwed up. He's not human but He can be fucking fallible. He used to be full of fucking vengeance. I know that. I did His work during that time. God could be just as hell bent on fucking destruction as Satan, my friend. What's so heroic about that?"
Hopefully God didn't smite him for this. It was for education! Education! The bad guy of Christianity is Satan or, in easier terms, the fucking Devil. He's the bad guy. Why? Because God said so? Who the fuck put God in charge? Satan's not a nice guy, no. He's a fucking prick but he does his job well. That's probably why there are people out there that worship him. Satanists. So, what's making their belief system better than yours or mine? Typically, people think of Satanists as following the personification of evil, that being the devil. What if they're just following something they believe in more than God's word? Why the fuck do they get faulted for believing in that yet we're tolerant of all other sorts of religions with questionable tactics. Cults can exist and worship easier than Satanists. It doesn't make fucking sense."
Satan was a fucking prick. But, again, education! Loki wanted to see if he could get people thinking. "Satan's a different kind of thinker. The people that follow him, they're called villains. Why? What's the difference in one of you deciding you liked what Satan preached rather than what one of the many branches of Christianity preached? Does that make you incurably evil? Think about that. If you choose to worship, to join some religion that is seen as evil, you're basically being ostracized and called a villain for your beliefs. You're a villain, you have no worth, you're going to persecuted. Why does that make fucking sense?"
Religion, apparently, was something Loki could talk a lot about. Anyone that knew him should know why. "For today's activity, I want to tell me how you would feel if, after knowing someone for years, becoming close to them and trusting them, you find out their beliefs follow that of Satan or whomever might be the evil force of religion in your world. They've never been evil or violent towards you but they choose to believe something with a nasty stigma attached. Are you going to accept that? Or are you going to automatically label them a villain because they don't believe and follow the so called heroic branches of religion?"
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