Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex
| I'm not a Christian, but I do believe in God (I don't adher to any religion, but I know that e.g. Orthodox Christian theology and my beliefs mirror each other to quite some extent) and I never use the word needlessly. I've been thinking more and more about this kind of thing lately and the thing is... to you or me the word signifies the divine, something holy. It doesn't signify that to the average person. Just like I am not the same person as people who bear the same name as I do, the real God is not what most people refer to when they use that word. Their behavior practically proves it. If someone truly knows the divine, they wouldn't try to sully it, so to speak. I'd even go so far as to say that some people who claim to be atheists do believe in the divine, but simply dislike certain language (i.e. the reverse, where they find the idea of referring to their notion of ultimate truth and love as "god" unacceptable). |
| My advice is grow thicker skin. I can't fathom having a problem with fictional characters in media having and expressing differing religious views to your own. |
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Cyberpunker said: Do you have any advice to "overcome" this? Say your prayers and eat your vitamins, brother. |
| I think if you want to learn the true meaning behind it, you're going to have the writers personally... Is that possible? Probably not. If you haven't seen 2ND GIG yet, I suggest that you do. They use a lot of religious aspects in the ending episodes and I think you would enjoy it. Overall, I don't think the writers meant to cause any harm. If there's one thing I know about entertainment, its that everyone is a critic and you can't please them all. |
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Cyberpunker said: Hello everybody, i need a little advice regarding something that's been bothering me for some time now. Let's begin with the fact that I am a Christian (to clarify, I'm not that kind of Christian who covers his ears screaming in pain when someone says things like "Jesus Christ!" or even "Goddammit!"), and I was quite shaken when I heard the Laughing Man (who's always been one of my favorite gits charachters) say fully and twice in two of the final episodes (22 and 23, if I remember correctly) the phrase :" that son of a ***** God". Now, I now perfectly that Gits is way more than two blasphemous sentences (and I still consider it the greatest anime ever) but 1) it pains me that such a beatifully crafted anime can "fall so low" 2) such offensive statements made it to the official english dub. Again, I'm not a bigot, but some things really "cross the line" for me. What are your opinions? Do you have any advice to "overcome" this? English isn't my mother tongue (so I am sorry for eventual errors), so is it possible that the phrase has a "less offensive meaning" i'm not aware of? The author was a bit disrespectful here, but it was the LM who has that personality. We the viewers, are not meant to empathize with LM necessarily. I didn't like him for instance. So yes, i agree with you, it was profanity, and the anime would have been better without it. Even then, LM believes in god (not necessarily the Christian / abrahmic one) so there's that. |
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