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[reverentresistance]

The Queen's power has to be less than God's... So why do you think He lets us be brought here? This goes a little beyond giving us free will, don't you think?

[Ky's unsure herself, but there's no way to gain certainty. She can only find out what other people are thinking, and that for some reason feels particularly important.]

What purpose are we serving here?

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[tosaveyou]

He shouldn't have! Who would send their son away to suffer and die?

That's... He could have done it another way. That's just cruel. What kind of father would do that?

[reverentresistance]

Perhaps because we're all His children in a way, and because He wanted to redeem us. Wanted us to serve him. We're the ones who failed.

[tosaveyou]

You shouldn't make someone and then make them serve you. That isn't fair. If God can really do anything, make anything, then He's to blame for all the suffering.

[reverentresistance]

You don't understand at all. We're honored to get to serve Him.

[tosaveyou]

You're the one who doesn't understand! You're just saying these things because they're tradition. Just because something's traditional doesn't mean it's right!

[Kariya coughs. She seems more than a little agitated, breathing hard.]

I'm not honored. I won't serve that monster. If there is a God, I hate Him.

[reverentresistance]

[Ky's getting plenty agitated herself.]

Not just because it's traditional, but because it's reality! He has saved us, he's the one who created us!

You shouldn't say such things.

[tosaveyou]

It's something you were told when you were young. That doesn't mean you have to believe it.

Those old beliefs, they're responsible for so much cruelty.

[Though it's magecraft she's thinking of, more than religion, the principles are the same.]

I don't see what's wrong with saying what I think is true.

[reverentresistance]

I don't have to believe it, I choose to have faith.

It makes me a better person.

[tosaveyou]

But you chose it just because it was what you were told. Too many people blindly believe what they're told. [She hadn't believed what her family had told her, about magecraft and the way the world works, and she's glad of it.]

You didn't find it for yourself.

You can be a better person without that. On your own.

[reverentresistance]

There's nothing wrong with taking wisdom from people I trust, with not solely relying on my own experience.

Not to the extent I need to be.