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e-adlirez · 29 days ago

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This is gonna sound weird, but for me, Max’s usage of Biblical references are way too natural for him to have learned them just to impress Grace. That and he drops them even when Grace isn’t around, most notable being his god complex speech at Pasqualli’s, where his monologue is an uncannily intimate distortion of God’s love as a God of unconditional love.

“You’re not a nerd because of your glasses or your pimple-dick. You’re a nerd because I said so. I willed it into existence. I’m your God.”

I don’t have an exact Bible quote right now, but it is established that God doesn’t love Man because of his traits or achievements— He loves Man because He created him, the definition of unconditional love. That kind of theological distortion, especially said in such earnest to me feels like Max definitely got that from his religious background as opposed to him learning them from a Bible cram sesh, but that’s just me

Max Jägerman makes several Biblical references throughout the show, so do y’all think Max had a religious education as a kid or that he went out of his way to Read the Bible to Impress Grace Chastity?

#starkid #nerdy prudes must die #max jagerman #grace chastity #also saying this as someone who’s grown up in a religious background and had to study a bit of theology in high school #if max as an 18-year-old tried to study the bible to impress grace he’d be so goddamn lost without a pastor #everyone talks about the highlights of the bible like the stories and psalms but what no one tells you is that there are entire chapters of #multiple books of the bible dedicated entirely to boring things like entire genealogical lines and extremely outdated laws #leviticus and numbers in particular are just 63 *lengthy* chapters split between the two dedicated entirely to stuff so dry #i’d forgive you if you didn’t want to spend your daily devotion reading four pages’ worth of text about the different kinds of burnt #offerings you can make depending on what you want or need to do #or the entire first page of numbers dedicated entirely to a census of the Israelites #most churches kinda gloss over leviticus numbers and deuteronomy because they are just that dry and almost every law in them is outdated #without a pastor to tell max “hey the story picks up again at joshua if you wanna get to that part” he would’ve given up at leviticus’s #four-page documentation of how to pick animals to slaughter for your burnt offering

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