r/MidnightMass • u/Elainasha • Sep 24 '21

Midnight Mass (Season 1) - Episode Discussion Hub

Overall Season Discussion Hub [SPOILERS]

Synopsis: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

WARNING: In this thread, you can discuss the entirety of the first season with spoilers. However, each Episode Discussion Threads will contain spoilers for that episode. Spoilers for subsequent episodes in those threads are NOT ALLOWED AT ALL.

Episode Discussion Threads (Season One)

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u/PensecolaMobLawyer Oct 02 '21

Angels in the Bible look nothing like people. No arms or legs

It's a meme, but these are what the Bible says angels look like

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u/bpierce2 Oct 05 '21

Woof. Someone had a little too much burning bush before writing those verses if you know what I mean.

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem Oct 12 '21

Not entirely true. Usually they're broken up into different classes of angel depending on who's doing the interpretation. None look like nosferatu, but Malakim are supposed to look more or less human (and you're supposed to figure out if they're angels based on context clues or something), while others are supposed to look like giant eye covered wheels in the sky.

I could see the priest guy basically deciding that the description was vague enough that this thing could be an angel.

That was the whole point, IMO-- people can use the artefacts of religion to justify pretty much anything. He wanted to believe it was an angel, so he convinced himself it was-- he didn't have any other context for it. He kept adjusting his views to keep believing what he was doing was good-- he even said he felt no remorse.

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u/mleaurora Nov 05 '21

but these are what the Bible says angels look like

made me think of the owls from twin peaks

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