DPP: I Believe in You

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Believer or Not?





 
 

From very near the beginning of the series I was struck by the notion that Kara believed in the gods and Lee believed in Kara.  Something about the spiritual versus the rational (or more rational) really appealed to me.  How does the religious (or not) effect Kara and Lee?   And how do you see the spiritual aspect of their relationship?

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[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I really like the idea that Kara finds religion as a place to put her trust because the people closest to her let her down early in her life. I also tend to believe that her views of religion and spirituality are very personal and maybe don't entirely line up with any particular sect.

I definitely see Lee as the sort who went through the motions of religion, likely following the motions of the mother who went to temple services because she ought to not because of any driving belief, but who stopped going unless forced once he wasn't living under his mother's roof. I like the idea that Zak was his beacon and once Zak dies Lee doesn't have much to guide him (likely creating his dependence of sorts on the military).

But I see both her belief and his reluctance to believe as being driven by extreme loneliness, and that their individual circumstances in the world just make them internalize that loneliness in different ways.

She finds hope in a greater power and he borrows that hope. She's like his conduit to the divine leading him away from the despair that comes in the absence of belief in anything. Which is also why she so often pulls away from him. I'd imagine that it's quite a lot of responsibility to be so invaluable to another person.

Or maybe I should have just nodded in agreement with this in the first place. ;D

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

I also tend to believe that her views of religion and spirituality are very personal and maybe don't entirely line up with any particular sect.

Yeah, I think her solo prayer sessions as well as her immediate defensiveness towards Roslin when she questioned her beliefs were signs of this. Her spirituality wasn't something she could share with other spiritual people, it was just for her. And it was very much a individual spirituality rather than a specific dogma.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Makes me wonder what would have happened if Kara's spirituality had been made public.