I'm thinking about how Aziraphale is being forged into a weapon of destruction. Aziraphale, who is soft and indulgent, who loves nice things and feeling nice.
Obeying God should be nice, shouldn't it? But if it's something that goes so much against your nature, something so unnatural, something so perverse, then does obeying God mean breaking yourself? Completely denying who you are, who you were shaped to be?
Yes, it does. Obligation to obey is violence. Creating someone just to break them is violence.
I'm just feeling that post-Miltonian 18th century atheism so much. Thank you, Neil Gaiman. Having a crash course in Western philosophy against my will.










