#I was raised southern baptist

[callsign-birdie]

I'm only ten minutes into Them That Follow and the visceral reaction I'm already having to this 🤢 The shit I watch for actors because I'm crushing on them.

[fleurbies]

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬

[mysterioussinkhole]

severance 2x04 spoilers and thoughts on religion in the show's universe

It's been discussed a bit how Lumon's company culture and Kier as a figure are very Mormon-coded. This is primarily in terms of American exceptionalism as a core tenet of a religious movement that centers on the wisdom of a singular man, purported to be advancing the human race.

What interested me in this most recent ep (2x04 Woe's Hollow) was the language Milchick uses in his speech before Innie Irving's death. Specifically the last line about condemning him to "the eternal dark".

To me (whose knowledge of Mormon theology is limited to the bits of research I've done, I'm def not an expert), this draws a comparison to the concept of the Outer Darkness. References to it are present in the Christian Bible, but within Latter Day Saints teachings it is a realm of the spirit world (where we go/return to after death) that is for those who have committed the highest sin.

Knowing God's Will, promising to follow it, and then consciously rejecting it. Apostasy.

The assumption is that not many people go there, and there's debate over what actually merits being condemned to the Outer Darkness after death.

The usage in Severance of that language does feel very intentional, especially after an episode that gave us more of the Kier-based philosophy the innies are educated to follow. Irving B is condemned to nonexistence after the high crime of harming not just a coworker, but an Eagan. Knowingly and willingly.

We don't know what happens to innies when their outies leave the company in disgrace. If they're simply never reactivated or if their data is erased entirely. However, I think this language implies that within the Kier religion's philosophy Irving has been sentenced for the highest crime possible and his soul can never be redeemed.

Good for him.

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

“Why is there a nun’s habit here without the nun inside?” “Rapture!” CACKLING

Love the implication that him as the priest didn’t get raptured

“Sister Lupe? Oh I’m going to hell” this poor religious Irish mob dude

[thebookoflongings]

just here piejesuposting through the horrors

[grayintogreen]

The organ music playing in the bg when Bobby Dawn talks deserves its own trigger warning because of the VISCERAL RAGE that overwhelmed me

[isa-ah]

send me ideas for how to make my new OC look. I was thinking rlly hard about the possessed by an angel horror narrative and I want to play w that & w angels and the abrahamic god not being. well. 👀 very nice shall we say. but I have 0 ideas for character visuals

[venacavaflora]

the new blackberry dr pepper tastes like delaware punch and it’s making me feel small in a way i dont know to place..positively…god please coax the guilt and embarrassment away before i turn into a pile of skittles

[ephiesoul]

a pastor is protestant and a priest is catholic :) that is the difference!

Wha really? I don’t know why I always just assumed it was a regional word difference instead of an actual difference in religion. Thank you for explaining 💜

[boydykedevo]

I don’t not like it when people make the parish very Formal And Ritualized And Weird in fanworks but part of what feels so real about it to me in canon is the mundanity of it all. Guidance isn’t dressed like a nun, she just looks like a mom. The parish doesn’t have to be visually weird to be a cult.

[bbwbrat]

i want to BLASPHEME i want to get railed in a church. preferably by a priest, of a faith i no longer believe in or never did

i want him to desecrate his vows he made to his god because he cannot resist his own fallible mortal sins and desires. and i want to fall prey to them too.

like to be clear i don't even really want it to be about me at all? i just want to be a tool. a vessel. a victim. a receptacle for his shame and disgust and self-loathing that he fills me with with every thrust

until he cums inside me so hard he thinks he sees heaven but really he knows it is hell.

i want him to ruin me. i want him to use me to ruin himself. i want to eat his guilt and shame and sin, to take it all inside me until it's all i'll ever be fit for

and then I want him to beg me to come back and do it again every saturday night, it's ok he'll be absolved on sunday morning

[quff]

I was scared of demons and ghosts as a kid, and when i told my mom she would literally confirm my fears like "careful not to let those things come in, because fear draws them in" or something, and as an adult I'm like.... what the fuck lmao why the fuck would you say that to a child?

i think many christian parents just love traumatizing their kids, they think it's funny. i mean why else did they push so hard to show Passion of the Christ to 13 yr olds?

[angelnumber27]

I mentally physically and emotionally cannot handle when somebody feels as horrible as I do all the time like I know that there’s nothing you can really say to help and I feel so fucking hopeless pouring my heart out trying to help people I love and feeling like it’s completely useless. Im just so exhausted and I want to help everyone but in doing that I neglect myself and it’s probably always going to be like that

[tinogiehd]

do you have a complicated relationship to religion? was reading your fics - just wondering

😕

[m0tel6mxzzy]

i just realized my grandma bless her heart i love her to bits is gonna make me go to church w her and even if she doesn’t make me my mom is probs gonna make me go w her anyway 😭

[bbeelzemon]

every time i think im finally getting all my baggage in a row i look closer and realize ive STILL barely scratched the surface on how deep some of this shit goes