Buffy is my personal saviour 28 Oct 2009 As always, the Onion has the scoop. I really like this new religion of Fictionology. One gets to choose a fictional character as your messiah, deity or general moral teacher. Who better than Buffy? Look good, kick evil doers, and have time for a social life. “Unlike Scientology, which is based on empirically verifiable scientific tenets, Fictionology’s central principles are essentially fairy tales with no connection to reality,” the AIR report read. “In short, Fictionology offers its followers a mythical belief system free from the cumbersome scientific method to which Scientology is hidebound.” Humor Religion
Religion The iron rod of religion 27 Dec 2007 Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated, probably by Islamist extremists. While no saint, she clearly stood for democratisation in Pakistan, and all hell is likely to break out there now. Today, I saw The Golden Compass, after reading the book a couple of days ago. It, too, portrayed religious absolutism (and… Read More
Humor All gorillas are Sigourney Weaver 13 Sep 2007 As a silverback, I am always intrigued when you humans start to debate our nature, or put us in silly films (not that the one with Sigourney was silly – any film she’s in is fine by me. We don’t get much film out here in the wild, anyway). But,… Read More
Politics The nightmare of Christianity 10 Sep 2009 … the Republican home schooled authoritarian version of it, anyway. An excerpt in The Nation from Max Blumenthal’s forthcoming book, Republican Gommorah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party. Read More
I really like this new religion of Fictionology. One gets to choose a fictional character as your messiah, deity or general moral teacher. So it’s a typical religion then. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with Buffy being the Savior. I don’t know how I’d handle having such an overpowering sexual attraction to my Messiah…
Very good point. Okay, that does it, I’m converting to fictionology and worshiping Buffy as my savior and redeemer. The best part is that Faith is the Antichrist in this theology.
Thing is, I have a thing for Faith, too. (My name is Wilkins, after all.) Does that make me a Duellist?
Just last night my husband and I were making a list of awesome fictional women warriors; naturally Buffy was on it. The others were Ripley, Samantha Carter, Xena, Sarah Connor, Wonder Woman (I forget the rest).