Line #27 Quotes/EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory


1	->''"Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified."''
2	-->-- '''Sherwood Anderson'''
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4	->''"Christ figure is a recurring motif in many cultures; death and rebirth; symbolic turning of the seasons, all that crap. [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteandtheRoadRunner Wyle E. Coyote]] was a fucking Christ figure, man, and [[AcmeProducts Acme Company]] was Rome, baby."''
5	-->--'''Daniel Suarez''', ''Daemon''
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7	!!!On works
8	->''"I understand. The bird represents God and coyote is man, endlessly chasing the divine, yet never able to catch him. It's hilarious."''
9	-->-- '''Castiel''' (On WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner), ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
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11	->''"Now they're trying to come up with meanings for [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs. [[HypocriticalHumor I never understood what any of them were about,]] [[SelfDeprecation myself...]]"''
12	-->-- '''Music/RingoStarr'''
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14	->''"''Series/BabylonFive'', ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', ''Series/TheXFiles'' -- they all seem to think by adding a spiritual forecast to the show, that it automatically adds a layer of depth and worthiness to the proceedings. When in most cases it just leads to disappointment, with the holy fireworks that are promised turning out to be anything but...This is what happens when you believe that your show is more than just an hour's entertainment, but a quasi-religion of its own."''
15	-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-x-files-season-nine.html Joe Ford]]'''
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17	->''"Yeah, anyone who ''didn't'' think there was gonna be some kind of Christ motif in this movie, raise your hands. Okay, everyone who raised their hands, go home. Have any of you ever ''seen'' a pretentious movie before?"''
18	-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://booth.bz/zardoz2i recap]] of ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''
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20	->'''Chris:''' Lex totally prison shanks Superman with a Kryptonite shiv.\
21	'''David:''' In the side, natch. This is the most labored combination Caesar/Jesus metaphor of all time.\
22	'''Chris:''' Aw jeez, I didn’t even think of that. Thanks for ruining one of the three things I liked about this movie, jerk.
23	-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-superman-returns-2006-part-two/ on]] ''Film/SupermanReturns''
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25	->''"Saw ''Film/CannonballRunII'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody [[MistakenForProfound broke up into discussion groups]]. Trying to get through that Burt Reynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."''
26	-->-- '''Creator/DennisMiller'''
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28	->''"The problem with saying that EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory is NOT that critics and scholars and English teachers are 'Reading Too Much Into Things.' That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a Shitty Argument. It's an argument that refuses to discuss the merits of symbols and just dismisses them entirely because 'The author couldn't have meant that!'"''
29	-->-- [[http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2012/12/seer-of-light-ascend-why-homestuck-is.html Seer of Light: Ascend (Why Homestuck is a Gnostic Story)]]
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31	->If there is anything pleasant in life, it is doing what we aren’t meant to do. If there is anything pleasant in criticism, it is finding out what we aren’t meant to find out. It is the method by which we treat as significant what the author did not mean to be significant, by which we single out as essential what the author regarded as incidental. Thus, if one brings out a book on turnips, the modern scholar tries to discover from it whether the author was on good terms with his wife; if a poet writes on buttercups, every word he says may be used as evidence against him at an inquest of his views on a future existence. On this fascinating principle, we delight to extort economic evidence from Aristophanes, because Aristophanes knew nothing of economics: we try to extract cryptograms from Shakespeare, because we are inwardly certain that Shakespeare never put them there: we sift and winnow the Gospel of St. Luke, in order to produce a Synoptic problem, because St. Luke, poor man, never knew the Synoptic problem to exist.
32	-->-- '''Monsignor Ronald A. Knox''', [[http://www.diogenes-club.com/studies.htm "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes"]]
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34	->I spotted a chart where someone lists all the multifarious similarities between [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] and Jesus. The list includes the fact that they both had father figures. (Harry: Dumbledore. Jesus: God the Father.) They both suffered. (Harry: Cruciatus curse. Jesus: Hung on the cross.) Both of them even had a decent into the “nether regions.” (Harry descends into the Chamber of Secrets. Jesus descends into hell.) \
35	Well, this brilliant and insightful list got me thinking. Last night I had a descent into my basement where I did some laundry. It was dark down there, and I stubbed my toe really hard. (You know how much that hurts when you bang your little toe? I bet it’s as least as bad as the Cruciatus curse.) Then my dad called me on the phone and I realized that I have a father figure too! Wow! What are the odds?
36	-->--'''[[http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blogalogue/2007/07/harry-potter-fans-lets-not-pla.html Patrick Rothfuss]]'''
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38	-> (Baal is) the prince of gods, the rider of clouds, the son of [[{{God}} El]]... ''Jor''-El. That explains a lot! ComicBook/{{Superman}} is the devil!
39	-->-- '''Creator/NoahAntwiler''', ''WebVideo/CounterMonkey: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a78wGV5ANw Roll for initiative, Jesus!]]''
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41	-> In many college English courses the words "myth" and "symbol" are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain't no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing courses the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does this Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that's how Melville did it.
42	-->--'''Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin''', "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction"
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44	-> I'm talking about the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1978/ga780727.gif Pipe Strip]] in relation to religion. It's... it's interesting to assign the roles of God and anti-God, or, as many know him to be, the devil. Or on a much larger scale, simply the forces of good and evil. Garfield, the thief-cat, evil and malicious: He is the devil, placed to the right. And note, the two forms of Jon; the Jon on the left, still innocent, still draped in the delight, of the lack of knowledge. He is the humans in the Garden of Eden. He feels for his pipe... but he has yet to eat from the tree. And Garfield, the sinister serpent... and notice, notice how Jim Davis has framed this. The center Jon is locked in a struggle, between his innocence, and his knowledge of the truth, knowledge of the existence of evil.\
45	It is stunning. The great struggle, the struggle that transcends time. And Jim Davis floats over all this, as creator -- the God, of sorts, in his own right.
46	-->--'''WebVideo/LasagnaCat''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw 07/27/1978]]
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48	-> Avid fan theory creator Jeremy Boruch declared purgatory as the "only logical explanation of every made-up story in existence."\
49	"It’s just really obvious when you think about it," said Boruch. "I've examined hundreds of television shows, and uniformly there are hints and clues that the characters are in the waiting room of eternity, and only have each other for company. Like, it was so obvious that in ''Film/SpaceJam'', Michael Jordan going down the golf hole was a metaphor for his death — the Looney Tunes characters are the angels, and the Monstars are the demons."
50	-->--'''Website/TheHardTimes''', "[[https://thehardtimes.net/culture/theyre-actually-in-purgatory-reports-every-single-fan-theory/ 'They're Actually In Purgatory', Reports Every Single Fan Theory]]"
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52	->Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in your paper, you say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland.\
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54	Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English.
55	-->--'''Creator/DaveBarry''' on college courses
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57	-> When analyzing ''Paradiso'', EVERYTHING IS JESUS.
58	-->--'''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions''', on ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''
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60	->The danger of an ideological reading is that it will proceed directly from thin description to condemnation.
61	-->-- ''Seeing Through the Eighties'', '''Jane Feuer'''
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63	->'''College Student:''' Our professor told us that [character]'s room being blue is a symbol of his loneliness and isolation. Is that what you meant?
64	->'''Author:''' [[DefiedTrope No. I just like blue.]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments You can tell your professor they're full of s***.]]
65	-->--''[[Website/NotAlwaysRight Not Always Learning]], [[https://notalwaysright.com/reading-too-much-into-it-2/33235/ Reading Too Much Into It]]''
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67	->''"If you look at, say, Moby-Dick, it can be interpreted as a metaphor for a lot of things - man vs. nature, order vs. chaos, the struggle to clean semen out of the bathroom rug before your mum gets home - but on the surface level, it's an adventure story about a white whale and a dude with a narc-on, and if you prefer it that way, then that's all it need be. GRIS and Sea of Solitude have no surface level; it's all symbolism all the time."''
68	-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''
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70	!!!In-universe
71	->''(Kobayashi and Tohru are in an amusement park's HallOfMirrors)''\
72	'''Tohru:''' What's the point of all this?\
73	'''Kobayashi:''' I think it's to reexamine and come to terms with your physical state.\
74	'''Tohru:''' I see... yes, I must accept that I am in ''human form'' now.\
75	[Real answer: it's a maze.]
76	-->-- ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''
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