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« on: October 02, 2010, 02:47:57 AM »
"Clinton is cleared"? Someone said that? If only it was said in 1995, it could have made sense!
I do wonder about Barnabas in relation to God. They couldn't touch the subject because it would mean a TV show was seeming to take stands on what religious views were right. They have the Devil though, so God's in the picture somewhere. It seems to me that Barnabas is supposed to be a creature who is cursed and therefore cut off from salvation, or any relationship with the Almighty... not because of anything he did, but because of something done TO him by a servant of the Devil. This is of course totally unfair, but I have no problem whatsoever with any vision of the world as being totally unfair.
That seems to be DS's world view. It's a dark, treacherous, unfair cosmos, and while God is out there, you're basically on your own. It seems odd that God would allow curses that cut innocent people off from Him, but maybe some things in an infinite universe really do escape His attention.
Given all that, I always think it's good of Barnabas to keep God in mind, in a positive way, which is what I take from his references to God in conversation. It shows an admirable lack of bitterness.
By the way, I'm not religious. Have I said all this before?