Saints and gods pop up for everyone, maybe especially for sinners. Forgiving them, justifying them, expressing their anxieties, offering comforts. Harkening back to earlier gods, seeking vengeance, retribution for the lost. Angry saints, hungry ghosts, discomfiting the comfortable.
Make people desperate, and they'll grow their own hope. It may not take the form of a pretty and obedient martyr.
5 comments:
Oh Zhoen!
Tom,
Fits in with a lot of the bloodier Medieval saints, when you think about it.
a more terrifying version of pratchett's death who remains one of my favourite characters in the series.
Don't think I'll be praying to her ... might not like what she'd come up with . I'll have to have another look at St. Ernesto , instead .
pc,
But it is comforting to someone, I have to assume.
S&S,
Very wise. I have to look up Ernesto. The Importance of Being Ernesto?
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