"How can she say there's no God? She's been in Heaven!"
Eh, as much as I like to paddle Joss for lack of world-building, I think that one is more an example of a limitation of the poster's worldview than anything. For one, Buffy didn't say she was in Heaven, she said she thought she was in heaven. She also called Earth hell, so...yeah. I don't think there's a contradiction there. Gods in the Buffyverse tend to follow closer along the lines of Pagan gods, I think. Glory and Illyria are classed as a gods, but neither are omniscient or all-powerful.
I think in the Bverse, the closest thing to "God" is the PTB, which are arguably knowable and in most cases, able to be defeated (Jasmine, free will, etc.) which, I think, makes them unable to be defined by the Judeo-Christian "God" as well. /ramble
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Date: 2013-06-10 04:27 pm (UTC)"How can she say there's no God? She's been in Heaven!"
Eh, as much as I like to paddle Joss for lack of world-building, I think that one is more an example of a limitation of the poster's worldview than anything. For one, Buffy didn't say she was in Heaven, she said she thought she was in heaven. She also called Earth hell, so...yeah. I don't think there's a contradiction there. Gods in the Buffyverse tend to follow closer along the lines of Pagan gods, I think. Glory and Illyria are classed as a gods, but neither are omniscient or all-powerful.
I think in the Bverse, the closest thing to "God" is the PTB, which are arguably knowable and in most cases, able to be defeated (Jasmine, free will, etc.) which, I think, makes them unable to be defined by the Judeo-Christian "God" as well. /ramble