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i've touched on this before but im gonna touch on it again now that i've sat on it for a lil while

I do agree with your thoughts bc it's not really a trope i personally super enjoy either. To me its pretty overdone/recycled idea on top of people just,,, clearly Not Caring abt simon's character enough to look into his psyche any deeper than surface level Religious Trauma. I have seen some people playing with it/working Simon's character in a way that it does make it new and pretty interesting (look up cotard's delusion, thank me later) but there's also the simple fact that Simon's view on religion is a very complex/uncomfortable thing, and (in my opinion) doing injustice to that feels like an injustice to his character, y'know?

I like seeing people play with how he might process the jarring difference between his awful life Pre-Lung and his peaceful life Post-Lung, but a lot of people seem to miss the fact that he is Not Christian. Eden was entirely it's own thing, a scientific marvel turned sour by the simple fact that science was ripped out from under everyone's feet the second The Rapture happened. being told your entire universe disappeared is more than enough to send a civilization into a complete mass hysteria. I wish people played with that terrifying idea more, PLUS the fact that Simon fell from a world where he was forced to believe something without proof straight onto the ship of an honest to god Science Teacher!! Cults haaaate those!!!!