Glee

[seriousfic]

Religion!!!

Kurt: I don't go to church because of how EVERY CHURCH EVER treats women and blacks.

God: Oh? Glee's gonna tell me about how to respectfully treat minorities now?

Puck: If nobody minds, I, a father at 16, am gonna sing a song about how awesome teenage promiscuity is. Any problem with that, girl who I knocked up and got kicked out of her house?

Quinn: Nope!

Puck: Then let's not listen to some old white guy tell teenage girls how to express their sexuality. Not when we can listen to Billy Joel doing it!

***

Burt: Huh, I just realized how dramatic and ironic it would be for me to fall sick, since the last conversation me and my beloved son had was a heated argument. OH SHI—

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Mercedes: Kurt, we all feel really bad about your dad, but we also weren't listening at all when you said you were atheist, so here's a song about how God will heal your dad.

Kurt: My father is dying! Who could believe there's a God in such circumstances?

Finn: Uh, I'm sitting right next to you. We made a point of it in the blocking and everything. In fact, I've had it worse than you. Your dad is awesome and you've had him up till now, while mine died years ago.

Kurt: Given the way your character development has been going, how is it you're still forming complete sentences?

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Sue: Like all atheists featured in this episode, I disbelieve God because I'm mad at Him. And now I'll be preachy about how people shouldn't be preachy.

Emma: Uh… wait, people are supposed to take our characters seriously?

Sue: Yeah. My sister is showing up later and everything.

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Kurt: Stop praying for my dad! I don't need some mystic bullshit, not when I have ACUPUNCTURE!

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Finn: Ms. Pilsbury, I'm depressed. With this grilled cheese sandwich, I thought I had a personal relationship with Jesus. And now I'm just like any other Christian!

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Kurt: I'm gonna sing a love song to my dad while vignettes from when I was a child play.

Target audience: So, uh… is that how he got gay?

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Finn: You'd think Losing My Religion would be an on-the-nose choice for an episode where someone loses their religion. But hey, if there were a Top 40 song about characters acting inconsistently with prior development, we would sing that every damn week.

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Mercedes: Kurt, I know you got really upset last time you felt I shoved my religion down your throat. Come to church with me.

Kurt: Okay!

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Kurt: Man, look at all these religious assholes. I bet they don't respect other people's beliefs!

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Finn: I can take a grilled cheese sandwich! And eat it!

Finn: This is somehow dramatic!

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Will: So, I guess we learned that religion in school is okay so long as we… uh… something?

Sue: Something!

Comments

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

*amused* Yeah, pretty much. What a mess of an episode.

[tempest819.livejournal.com]

Werd to all that, but, especially

Sue: Like all atheists featured in this episode, I disbelieve God because I'm mad at Him. And now I'll be preachy about how people shouldn't be preachy.

I didn't realize that when I watched it, but, you're right on the money. If I was an atheist, I would be miffed or even slightly perturbed.

I do give them credit for having teenagers on a network show advocate atheisim...although perhaps it's more akin to when lesbians on tv are shown as man-haters or the result of being victims of some form of abuse.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, the show is so darn preachy. And for an impoverished school program, they manage to put on a show for the whole school every time a character experiences a crisis or has a (whispers) very special episode lesson to learn.


And let us not forget the scene where Finn prayed to the grilled cheese Jesus.

Finn: I've been a good boy for weeks. Now can I touch Rachel's fair-to-middling boobs? Make it happen, Big Cheese.

[colonel-green.livejournal.com]

I don't think Kurt didn't believe in God because he was mad at Him (though he speculated that if God were real, he wouldn't be that impressed); he made a number of other arguments relating to the improbability of God existing.

I thought the main plot was weird on a number of levels. Now, I'm Catholic, and maybe American Protestants are different, but they insistence of most of Kurt's friends on praying all up in his face (and around his father's bed) after he'd said he was uncomfortable with it seemed really pushy to me.

By the same token, Kurt's reactions to other people offering their prayers seemed really over the top.

Still, great acting, and some affecting moments.

The Finn/comedy subplot was fun, though.

And some Brittana cuteness, which is always worthwhile.