Oh, I completely agree. I choose to be agnostic not because I've lost faith -- I've just never had any particular form of faith to begin with. It was troubling that the only self-identified atheists in the episode were both portrayed as people who have believed in God at one point and the only reason for becoming atheists was because, as you said, they felt let down by God. Every episode of Glee seems to have some sort moral lesson -- I'm not sure I like the message of this episode.
When I watch the anime, I'm going to have to tell my brain to not try comparing the anime to the live-action show and just treat it as an independent story. ;) I'm really liking the Japanese dub though (haha, it feels weird writing "Japanese dub" rather than "American dub" XD).
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Oh, I completely agree. I choose to be agnostic not because I've lost faith -- I've just never had any particular form of faith to begin with. It was troubling that the only self-identified atheists in the episode were both portrayed as people who have believed in God at one point and the only reason for becoming atheists was because, as you said, they felt let down by God. Every episode of Glee seems to have some sort moral lesson -- I'm not sure I like the message of this episode.
When I watch the anime, I'm going to have to tell my brain to not try comparing the anime to the live-action show and just treat it as an independent story. ;) I'm really liking the Japanese dub though (haha, it feels weird writing "Japanese dub" rather than "American dub" XD).