One of my favorite things about Heretic is that Mr. Reed, despite not being an atheist, does the classic Mid-2000s Edgelord Atheist thing of trying to make a point about Religion that is entirely orthogonal to why religious people practice their religion, so that when he’s done making his point with the Monopoly games and the records and everything, it doesn’t change either of the missionaries’ minds at all, instead Sister Paxton insincerely goes “oh no you’ve totally rocked my world! Now, Mr. Nice Scary Man will you please let me leave?” and Sister Barnes goes “your argument is facile and cliched, and it didn’t alter how either I or my partner feel about God or Mormonism, but we will continue to play along because we literally have to, I’d say do better but I don’t think you can.”















