The only reason for why Preacher and His Dark Materials reached such high acclaim is because of their blatant anti-christian propaganda and showing every atheists wet dream of seeing the pathetic christian god being conquered by the mighty, free thinking and heroic atheists.
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every atheists wet dream of seeing the pathetic christian god being conquered by the mighty, free thinking and heroic atheists.
It's already happened, centuries ago. Get over it.
Anti-Christian propaganda? Please point it out.
Also, please don't reflect your rapture wet dreams onto us decent people.
"every atheists wet dream of seeing the pathetic christian god being conquered by the mighty, free thinking and heroic atheists."
Yes, it is our dream. Any problems?
His Dark Materials, yeah, probably.
I've never read any of the Preacher books so I wouldn't know about that.
No, Preacher was successful because it pushed the boundaries of mainstream comic book taboos.
No; they got high acclaim because they were GOOD. (Though I don't know what the fuck happened to Garth Ennis between Hellblazer/Preacher and... now.)
Besides, Jesse Custer was very much not an atheist. He was, in fact, the titular preacher.
Why is it any mention of thought beyond a religion is "An attack on the faith"
I thought gods were so awesome that their faith and religion would be stronger....then again, christianity is rather shallow
NO! Don't TV Tropes! NO!
That said, the atheism themes of His Dark Materials trilogy did supposedly become much more blantant in the final book, once Pullman realized that he was writing for athiests. But they are usually serious in their critiques at TV Tropes, and don't use such inflammatory rhetoric.
A 3 for me, because it is partly true: that Pullman was writing an "anti-Narnia," but of course not all athiests have "wet dreams" about things like this.
And now you know why I stay the fuck out of the negative Subjective Tropes pages - nothing but whining.
Not the first time I've seen a fundy on there, but on any other page on TV Tropes it would have gotten deleted.
...His Dark Materials had some of the characters going to heaven, some others going to the world of the dead, a war between free thinkers and angels, aswell as the death of God... Not really an atheists book. In fact since in the end they ended up freeing God from enslavement, while others did battle with the ones who had enslaved him.... hmm I really should find my copies of thoes books I wanna read them again now.
Butthurt Christians need to GTFO mah TV Tropes. The top of the page, while saying that the page is subjective, ALSO says it's not the place to start a flame war or insult a religious position. Gee, what is going on here, if not that?
Spoiler alert:
He's an auto-didatic, feminist, ass kicking, tough talking, smoking, super hero cow boy. He even has a lighter from his dead dad that says "Fuck Communism".
Like Kevin Smith said, "It's more fun than going to the movies". Which of course led to someone saying "Maybe one of yours" which was pretty lulzy on its own.
Meanwhile, when the undead, hell scorned, bitter monster "conquers God", do you know what he does?
I don't get it. I've just finished reading His Dark Materials and haven't found anti-christian propaganda. Yes, there is some god there. Yes, there are people thinking that they are following his commands. So, did you recognize yourself there? Or what?
It's a while since I've read the His Dark Materials books (might give them a re-read, come to think of it) but I got the impression that the real villain wasn't God (or rather, the being claiming to be God) but people who use God as an excuse to be dicks. Fundies, in other words. The guy who originally recommended I read the series was in fact a Christian, who didn't present them as "look at this vile propaganda!!" but as the more reasonable "here's a cool fantasy adventure with some interesting philosophy attached."
And from a troper's point of view, CASYDL was doomed to become a cesspit from day one. Good riddance.
The page where I posted this (which has now been nuked RIP) was for everyone to list everyones complaints about whatever series/films/whatever, exaggerating comically along the way. Or, in other words, get get some issues you have with them off your shoulders. Here, I express my feelings that the critics may have been biased about the subject matter (atheism), but really, I don't have a problem with it (Actually I think Preacher is overrated and am not really interested in HDM). Like I said, get things off my shoulders.
God is conquered too easily; its simply no fun anymore.
All you have to do is stop believing, and he vanishes into inexistence from whence he came.
Unlike the millions of pro-Christian books.
And the lead characters in Preacher weren't atheists. You can't be an atheist when you've actually met God face to face. They were maltheists, as I am.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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