Supernatural 5x02

[certainthings]

I hases two questions about 5x02


"This isn't a hobby or an addiction. It's inside you now, this magic. You're responsible for it."

If Sam didn't need the feather and it was in him the whole time ... Why does he not have his mojo any more? I get that it took a lot out of him to kill Lilith but still, it should still be there. Shouldn't it?

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Dean knows that there is a hell.
Dean knows that there are demons.
Dean knows that there are angels.
Dean knows that Lucifer is out there looking for work.

And yet he doesn't believe in God. Using small words and hand puppets please explain this to me. I do not understand how he cannot believe in God.

Comments

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had trouble with Dean's logic too, but I seem to remember his difficulty understanding Sam's faith way back when. He could believe in every foul, evil, demonic thing out there, but not in angels or in god. Now he's seen angels, but he probably just has trouble with god because god is one of the good things. Pretty much goes hand in hand with the way he sees himself, no?

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

He could believe in every foul, evil, demonic thing out there, but not in angels or in god...he probably just has trouble with god because god is one of the good things.

And the angels he's seen have been more than willing to do some pretty foul things. They fit in with his view that the world is an unforgiving, unloving place. It's not a hard leap to go from I believe everything I see, and everything I see is foul and evil to IF I believe in something, it will turn out to be foul and evil.

At this point, refusing to believe in god may be exactly that--an act of conscious will. So long as Dean doesn't confess to believing in god, he doesn't have to face the possibility his logic suggests, that god is just as bent and crooked as all the other things that Dean can only believe in because he's seen them with his own eyes.