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Monday, September 19, 2016 3:39 PM

AAA3


So, I just finished watching "Jaynestown". Great episode - but there was something that's bugging me a little. Specifically, Mal's phrase at the end "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another. Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need". Knowing Joss Whedon peculiar take on faith and religion, could this sentence be a "stealth blasphemy" towards Jesus and all of his statues? (It's just a curiosity, but I'm glad if someone answers me).

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Monday, September 19, 2016 4:08 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


No more about Jesus than being about "every man" who has a statue. Statesmen, politicians, military heroes. The statues are made by their admirers, not the heroes themselves, and people tend to ignore the negative in their idols.




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Monday, September 19, 2016 4:20 PM

THGRRI


No matter how you cut it. Jesus was not a man he was a god. If you believe in that sort of thing.

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Monday, September 19, 2016 4:32 PM

AAA3


I guess...the thing that left me "shocked" was the fear of the possibility that whedon, who had treated so beautifully the concept of faith in the episode with river and book, could make such a " low blow" (yes i am christian).

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Monday, September 19, 2016 4:54 PM

AAA3


Quote:

Originally posted by THGRRI:
No matter how you cut it. Jesus was not a man he was a god. If you believe in that sort of thing.

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so all in all you think he was just referring to "regular" statues, leaving out religion?

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Monday, September 19, 2016 5:50 PM

THGRRI


Quote:

Originally posted by AAA3:
Quote:

Originally posted by THGRRI:
No matter how you cut it. Jesus was not a man he was a god. If you believe in that sort of thing.




so all in all you think he was just referring to "regular" statues, leaving out religion?



Of course, he said statues of men not gods.

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Monday, September 19, 2016 10:15 PM

MOOSE


I didn't get a jab at religion vibe at all from it.

And welcome to the site!

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Monday, September 19, 2016 11:39 PM

THGRRI


Yep welcome


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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:28 AM

AAA3


Wow.Believe it or not, you all lifted a weight off my shoulders. And thanks everyone for the welcoming!

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