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After all, she was the one who saved him with experimental treatment at that arctic base after he was exposed to the oil virus in End Game. And she was the one who drove him across the county and rehabilitated him from the LSD dosing and the gunshot wound (that she inflicted of course. And he thanked her). She was probably the one who got him through the memory drug dosing in only the second episode. She probably micromanaged his care after the broken leg in Fallen Angel and the shooting in Beyond the Sea (especially that, immediately after she identified him as her replacement Ahab.)

She's probably a nightmare to any hospital staff, which I'm sure Mulder finds extremely entertaining. I also think he is largely indifferent to his own physical discomfort but can't get enough of Scully looking after him because it's one of the only times they allow themselves to show tenderness and intimacy (one of the other times is when she's hurt or ill and not pushing him away). He also hates hospitals and Other Doctors so it's very handy to be able to 'suggest' to Scully that she should take him away to look after him as soon as safely possible.

they say 'representation matters' but erasing one of the only genuine atheist, jewish coded characters in mainstream media is a default position, apparently. It happens in 95% of fics, even in fics that i otherwise loved and adored.... and is essentially the main reason i stopped reading txf fic (beyond known safe friends).

But now there's a huge amount of pressure from what feels like a loud majority of the fandom to engage with the idea that the only morally correct way to like mulder and be an 'appologist' for him is to either believe that he's Secretly Christian Underneath and is just too traumatized to admit it, or that you have to constantly condemn his atheism and non-christianity. Also there's this weird layer of like, because CC got all hooked into his Scully-Madonna complex in the later mytharc, and because Scully had her (dubious and alarming) "religous episodes" as some of her main solo themes, many people see it as basically misogynist of mulder to not believe in the christian god.

Meanwhile the man is textually Jewish coded, confirmed Jewish in the marginalia and played by a Jew-by-Descent (who seems to have his own complicated beliefs and spirituality, but i mean the whole born into the tribe but assimilated thing does put you in a confusing place) and textually believes in some level of theism or animism, just not the christian god specifically. His beliefs aren't actually inconsistent, they're guided by his experieces while leaving the door open to spirituality. What he has a problem with is universal, proselytizing religions (as opposed to ethno-cultural religions) and grift that takes advantage of vulnerable people. mulder also turned on the UFO people, denouncing them as grifters and marks when he thought the whole thing was a hoax, which again, consistent belief system. But it's like almost no one is willing to listen past him refusing chistianity to understand what he's saying, it's just "mulder is mean, mulder is closed minded, mulder is sexist and insensitive to godly [woman] feelings.' I've even seen some posts about how mulder would be more likable if he'd "hear her out" about catholicism, and way too many fics where once they're together, there's a scene where, to paraphrase, scully's like "come to church with me" and mulder's like "oh i can't go in there with my blasephemous nature but you go pray for me i probably need it," as if it's a forgone conclusion that she's Right about christianity and once they have sex he will Of Course acknowledge that even though he's still stubborn and Unworthy... No, actually! Mulder is already morally and spiritually complete as a Non Christian. Non christians don't need to convert or "admit" that "the bible" or christians "might have a point" or "might be the real truth" (that was another post i saw, that One Breath/scully was telling mulder via scully's headstone -- that she didn't need! -- was telling mulder that the real Truth he'd been searching for was Faith [in the christian god]) to be a good person or to be fulfilled or to like them without requiring disclaimers.

I know it’s to flip the dynamics but does Mulder have to be so fucking callous about it?

The man believes in wicka and not the possibility of God. I’m not saying he has to believe in God in a Catholic or traditional sense but I think the fact that he will sight demons or possession and other religions as a place of research and possibly is frustrating.