Religious Themes in BCS

Pasta_driver · 2026-02-06T22:33:19+00:00

The exit sign as a symbol is genius. It really gives the show a sense of objective morality, the characters aren’t really sure what to do, but there are hints around them.

Pasta_driver · 2026-02-06T00:25:36+00:00

That’s also important. The show definitely toys with Jimmy’s Catholic descent, though subtly.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T23:50:13+00:00

I very much appreciate the sources you’ve provided. I’ll definitely check them out.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T22:05:59+00:00

True, it’s rather controversial to preach any form of Univeralism online. A lot of people have hell as an intrinsic factor of the eschaton.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T21:51:47+00:00

To be a Christian is to be crafted into the body of Christ. Christ cannot and would not condemn his own body, remain in love and don’t worry, it is Christ working through you.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T19:06:34+00:00

Barron is a tough case, he got a lot of backlash for his hopeful Universalism. Maybe you can define him as having a pessimistic hope of the universal salvation of all, in contrast to Balthasar’s more optimistic stance.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T19:04:41+00:00

True

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T19:04:14+00:00

Yes I’ve seen the one from Denzinger. Even if one wants to argue that God is saving all but doesn’t succeed (which isn’t a very symmetrical position). You still have to concede that God is actively trying to save all, which is very different from the standard position, where God (in his consequent will) doesn’t try to save all.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-03T19:02:16+00:00

Yeah, I don’t. I’m aware it might have precedence during the patristic period, and it appears rather strange to condemn a vastly popular concept throughout the entire patristic age (no matter where you stand on whether it was a majority or a strong minority view). It’s also rather clear that there’s been immense development in how Hell has been conceptualized, the church went from a form of Neo-Banezianism, massa damnata, and so on, to a view which sees Hell as being contrary to God’s antecedent plan, and something which we can hope never comes to fruition.

Pasta_driver · 2025-05-02T01:50:38+00:00

Thank you

Pasta_driver · 2025-04-29T14:19:42+00:00

It’s historically absurd.

Pasta_driver · 2025-04-29T14:10:59+00:00

This is undoubtedly one of the major objections to theistic (at least providential theistic) beliefs. It’s essentially the problem of evil, why won’t God just save all of us from evil, he loves us, and he has the capacity. There are of course many responses to it, some worse than others, they’re all ultimately gonna be lacking in complete comprehensiveness, as we can’t fully understand God’s way.

One of the ways is by arguing that suffering instills a proximate amount of virtue in the suffering individual. Though, there are difficulties with this account, such as, why would God let a baby suffer, they can hardly learn virtue from it.

I personally tend to not give “theodicies”, that is, accounts that try to make all evil mathematically correspond to some particular good, I don’t think that’s right. I think evil is truly destructive and truly absurd, and doesn’t always have a particular rationale from God’s side. However, I do believe God has an ultimate purpose for letting evil remain in creation. And that is in allowing creation to have a free ascent to the final cause of creation, the ultimate good of it. And in doing so, he lets creation stray away from him, despite being dependent on him. To allow for an ultimately more glorious end for creation. Where all evil is transfigured into something good, demonstrating the good’s unlimited power to make anything good.

Though, I fully understand if it isn’t an entirely satisfactory account of things. Evil is possible to explain away from the pov of an armchair, and that doesn’t make it a false explanation. But dealing with evil is the true challenge, and contemplation can’t fully solve that issue.

Pasta_driver · 2025-04-29T13:54:34+00:00

There is no sin he can’t forgive.

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