I've wrestled a lot with the religious dilemma and you capture it perfectly. The idea of handing over personal responsibility is deeply attractive, and definitely not a soft option for those able to carry it through, but if you can't do it, you can't do it, even if it tears you apart. But unconditional love, such as Rose's here, is incredibly powerful, and even the most complex and intellectual people are changed by it. I speak as the wife of someone who describes himself as an evangelical athiest, and would pray to Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward if he prayed to anyone at all. He's harder on himself than most Christians I know.
Attending a religious service as an observer is a difficult thing to capture, and you did it well - I think it's absolutely right that Rose would not belive, but still go, and the Doctor would not believe, and feel unable to.
Still loving this, because it's so detailed, so different and done at such a thoughtful and leisurely pace.
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Date: 2007-02-10 07:08 pm (UTC)Attending a religious service as an observer is a difficult thing to capture, and you did it well - I think it's absolutely right that Rose would not belive, but still go, and the Doctor would not believe, and feel unable to.
Still loving this, because it's so detailed, so different and done at such a thoughtful and leisurely pace.