History Main / EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory

* There are anti ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' blogs on there that have theorized that it's really about satanists and kids trying to reach the level of god. Half of that is technically true:
** The creation of the universe
** Kids trying to become gods
** Resurrection as gods

* Any rock music, or any popular (as opposed to classical or traditional) music is about drugs or Satan. Thus, this can double as an example for EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

* ''Series/DoctorWho',

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" deals with this InUniverse.

* StanleyKubrick's ''Film/TheShining''. Due to its open-endedness this film is a Rorschach test for most commentators. There could be religious allegory or it could be about the Cold War, the Holocaust, a pontification on mankind's predilection for violence through the ages, or a commentary on the breakdown of the family, the crisis of masculinity, the state of modern America and its ideologies, sex­ism, racism, or the dominance of big business. In fact, an entire documentary has been made about different interpretations of the Shining, called Room 237.

* Parodied in the episode "Hunter Heroici", Castiel watches a ''RoadRunner'' cartoon and becomes convinced it is religious allegory.

* Shirly Jackson wrote a short story called "The Lottery". It is about a town who ritually sacrifice a person, RANDOMLY DRAWN from the entirety of the townspeople, to be stoned to death to help the harvest. [[WordOfGod It is about nothing else.]] There is no symbolism and deeper meaning in it beyond that.

** Tarantino's official response about the briefcase was a fairly lackluster "whatever the audience wants it to be." For the record, it was originally supposed to be the diamonds from ReservoirDogs, but Tarantino decided to leave it deliberately ambiguous for the sake of this type of discussion.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Furude Hanyu? Jesus in Purgatory. Or, rather, Jesus in ''samsara''. What happens if God needs forgiveness too? Is a partly-human, self-sacrificial deity really that much better than the blood-thirsty gods of old, or does that just create new problems? What if no one even realizes there's been a change? (Then again, it could just be a show about psychotic lolis.)

* {{Superman}} is Jesus. For instance, consider this quote from Superman-TheMovie: "They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you.... my only son."

** From Link literally being ''Jesus'', to the Master Sword, the Moon Pearl and the Shadow Mirror symbolizing the imperial treasures of Japan (therefor making Hyrule, despite all evidence to the contrary, Japan), to absurd reasons why Link can't talk and overinterpratetion of Zelda's many Alter Egos as her having a SplitPersonalityDisorder. It has all been there.

--> Soldier: "You know, Captain, we drove through this whole city to find you. We...we saw things. If you don't mind me asking, what was it like? How did you survive all this?"

** Some people have interpreted it as being about Jesus and God.

->''"[Authors] aren't doing it so that your English teachers have something to torture you with. They're doing it, at least if they're doing it on purpose, so that the story can have a bigger and better life in your mind. But for the record, the question of whether or not they're doing it on purpose is NOT A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION.... Whether an author intended a symbolic resonance in their work is irrelevant.... The book does not exist for the benefit of the author. The book exists for the benefit of you.''"
->--''John Green''

* In religious scholarship, ''exegesis'' is when the reader/scholar analyzes the religious text as is, whereas ''eisegesis'' involves interpreting the text beyond what is actually stated or culturally or contextually implied. The latter, if taken too far, is considered an example of this trope.

* In religious scholarship, ''exegesis'' is when the reader/scholar analyzes the religious text as is, whereas ''eisegesis'' involves interpreting the text beyond what is actually stated or culturally or textually implied. The latter, if taken too far, is considered an example of this trope.

* In religious scholarship, ''Exegesis'' is when the reader/scholar analyzes the religious text as is, whereas ''Eisegesis'' involves interpreting the text beyond what is actually stated. The latter, if taken too far, is considered an example of this trope.

* StanleyKubrick's ''Film/TheShining''. Due to its open-endedness this film is a Rorschach test for most commentators. There could be religious allegory or it could be about the Cold War, the Holocaust, a pontification on mankind's predilection for violence through the ages, or a commentary on the breakdown of the family, the crisis of masculinity, the state of modern America and its ideologies, sex­ism, racism, or the dominance of big business.

* ''DonnieDarko'' is never interpreted the same way by any two people, with interpretations going all over the allegorical scale. Which is hilarious because Writer/Director Richard Kelly has stated that he didn't create the movie with any particular allegories or "depth" intended, and that (to him) it's just a science fiction movie, plain and simple. Naturally, the creators specifically telling people they're wrong has never stopped fandom before.

Rampant paranoia results from this state; one cannot look at anything without being suspicious that this is some kind of allegory brainwashing you into learning AnAesop ''[[SubliminalSeduction against your will]]''. Is that box of Corntos one character is handing another a mere confection or is it a blessing from On High, manna sent from a merciful {{God}}? Or wait... it could be a DealWithTheDevil; short-term pleasure resulting in permanent bodily ruination! [[FauxSymbolism What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?]] Thus the EpilepticTrees are planted.

* Not so much Jesus, but it's generally accepted amongst it's (''many'') detractors that the entire population of ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' (and by extention, ''{{ComicStrip/Crankshaft}}'') is in Purgatory (Limbo is also accepted) and merely awaiting inevitable death.

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** In "Course Listing Unavailable", it's ''revealed'' Greendale was actually [[spoiler: an insane asylum that the group all were kept at for 3 years. ]] After initially being fooled, they realise that's ridicolous, and this trope is tried out on them; apparently the entire study group is in purgatory, being watched by the devil;