I recently came across a brutal review of a novel that takes religious concepts and twists them into something… unsettling. It got me thinking—why do people react so strongly when a book dares to reinterpret sacred ideas?
One scene in the book hit me particularly hard: a character with three eyes, one weeping while the other two smile as he knots a corpse like a bag. It’s gruesome, sure, but the hidden symbolism makes it even darker—it reflects the Christian Trinity, with Jesus suffering while the Father and Holy Spirit remain distant. It’s a powerful and eerie take on an old concept.
It seems like books that tackle religious themes in unconventional ways always get the harshest criticism. Do you think that’s because people fear reinterpretation, or is it just resistance to any challenge of belief?
THIS is exactly why religion is dangerous. When one starts to have questions about logic and rational thinking it bleeds out into the rest of their lives. This generates antagonistic behavior towards science, medicine, and education. The push back on the threat, and the support to do so within the community is so subtle in the beginning that it doesn’t seem absurd from those in religion.