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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* I love one piece of Fridge Brilliance in ''[[Dogma]]''. The Metatron expresses himself as a Seraphim, being the highest choir of angels. In angelology, one of the defining features of seraphim is that they cannot tell a
* As has been noted [[Conversation in the Main Page|many, many times on this page]], indulgences do ''not'' work the way the movie says they do. Then again, the movie is all about [[Alternative Character Interpretation|alternate interpretation, be it of the Bible, angels, human beings, and even God himself]]. Why should indulgences be exempt from it?
** The ending provides a quite literal example of [[Deus Ex Machina]] when Bethany pulls God off life support. God out of the machine indeed.
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*** Considering the previous sentence was "No denomination's nailed it yet," it's hard to read Serendipity as including those things. And also, the "faith" one has is science is widely considered to be fundamentally different. And she said "it doesn't matter what you have faith in", not "it's important that you have faith that the universe is mostly constant". What if I have faith that the universe is random and [[Murphy's Law|mostly shitty]]? According to Serendipity's logic, especially if it doesn't just mean religious faith, that's fine too, and still much better than not having faith at all.
** Serendipity's whole speech also seems to contradict Rufus's idea that we shouldn't have beliefs, just ideas.
*** Rufus doesn't say you shouldn't have beliefs. He just says it's ''better'' to have ideas because ideas can be changed a lot more easily than beliefs can. This is dropping the anvil on the concept of Papal infallibility and that man's understanding of God must change as society moves from the medieval to the "enlightened". As for
** More trashing of this [[Fridge Logic|logic]], which somewhat clichéedly applies to most relativist positions: if it really doesn't matter what you have faith in, then what's wrong with the faith that a dogmatic Catholic has that hers is the only correct interpretation of God's word, and those who don't believe it and receive the sacrifice are damned for all eternity? (Or the parallel Calvinist's view, or whatever)?
*** Catholic dogma's a little more flexible than that. Per the Nicene Creed, the
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