Great thread within a thread about the cursed ones speaking the name of God.
My take on it is that there would be a difference between someone SEEKING out the supernatural powers and choosing to worship the Dark powers through their own free will, and someone who became a supernatural creature due to circumstances they didn't seek out.
Jeannie
My point was that that difference matters very little to the
cursed being who has had the door between himself and God shut in his face, and that presumably includes any afterlife such as Heaven. Either Barnabas never gets there because he just never stops walking the earth as a vampire, or because he's "cursed" (and the acts he commits while cursed).... and the fact that it's none of God's doing would make Barnabas more bitter, not less.
A witch can come along, curse an innocent like Barnabas, and since God rebuffs cursed beings (by definition), for eternity I suppose unless the curse is lifted, this means someone like Ang can do this without any divine objections or interference. For someone like Barnabas, this would go well beyond just feeling rejected.
Of course since Barnabas hopes to go back to 1969 and be well again, he might not feel all that doomed or cursed in 1897.