Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-34423991-20180511202529/@comment-35559560-20180512175809

I suppose ones that bash religion just for the use of SHOCK value. I'm a deeply religious person but I am NOT petty enough to chastise atheists for being what they are - after all, anti-atheist bias is as big a problem as anti-Muslim racism and homophobia. The problem is when someone uses religion, or a lack thereof, as some kind of shocking twist for a story without any kind of substance or philosophical discussion for it. Where Bad Kids Go is a GOOD example of how to do this WELL, given the corrupt government and religious control in Lebanon (I believe it was Lebanon where the story was set) during the time the author mentions. Gateway of the Mind, notsomuch. You have this buildup of doing an experiment to product a link to God, and then it just ends with "God has Abandoned Us". That's it. How anti-climactic. What they SHOULD have done is have him possessed by an angel or demon to talk with the scientists and discuss how horrible the world has become so that God has abandoned them. After all, the scientists were doing horrible experiments to an albiet-willing but otherwise uninformed man, so the angel or demon could use THAT as leverage as well. So much wasted potential.

Does thing make sense?