#but Aziraphale refuses to believe the hard-learned morality he has gained on earth isn't the morality that heaven is beholden to

[ineffectualbookseller]

Have we talked about the priest? The way his body marks Wee Morag's death as a heavenly judgment.

Morag is terrified when she sees the priest. She's said she's afraid of how graverobbing will stain her soul (she holds the common belief of the time that desecrating a body will stop that person from entering heaven - Aziraphale's correction that that's not how it actually works is brushed off) but she agrees to help Elpeth get a single body to help them survive. But now that they've done it she's met with the face of holy judgment and Morag is so badly scared that she falls into the gun's trip-wire and ends up dead.

(Something about being met with a dead priest and not a live one - a priest who can no longer offer forgiveness or absolution)

We know this grave robbery is happening with the approval of an angel, but Morag's death feels like a sign that heaven disagrees.

There's something bigger here about the hard-learned morality that Aziraphale is gaining on earth, his growth to understanding the greyness of human morality, and how he keeps reverting back to attributing his view of goodness to Heavenly Goodness. But it's not, it's human goodness. And despite the clear signs that they are different things and heaven isn't interested in his (near-)human perspective, he still can't make that disconnect.