See, Dean does believe. I just think he's thrown for a loop by Sam's faith and is reacting badly.
Those two instances, from Faith and IMToD, make me think that his angry denial of God's existence has at least as much to do with his dad's death as his mom's, and also with the idea that he's supposed to kill Sam. Like, maybe he had a lot of doubts before, and a troubled relationship with God, but only these last few months has he decided that he can't accept even the existence of God in a world where his dad died for him, Sam is a monster, and Dean has to kill him. The illogic of his insistence that God doesn't exist works a lot better for me if it's part and parcel of the intense denial he's been in since ELaC.
I love that, too, about Sam and Dean and the things they still don't know about each other. :D
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Date: 2007-02-07 04:25 pm (UTC)Those two instances, from Faith and IMToD, make me think that his angry denial of God's existence has at least as much to do with his dad's death as his mom's, and also with the idea that he's supposed to kill Sam. Like, maybe he had a lot of doubts before, and a troubled relationship with God, but only these last few months has he decided that he can't accept even the existence of God in a world where his dad died for him, Sam is a monster, and Dean has to kill him. The illogic of his insistence that God doesn't exist works a lot better for me if it's part and parcel of the intense denial he's been in since ELaC.
I love that, too, about Sam and Dean and the things they still don't know about each other. :D