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A Grunt in the Jungles of Purgatory


Demi-Bisexual. Cis. Riot Grrrl. Salty Dean fan. Writer.

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MALTHEISM, HUMANISM, AND THE MESSIANIC ROLE OF DEAN WINCHESTER

> #celebratingdean | week 3: divinity |

“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and
opposes our actions.” -  Wisdom 2:12


“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to
bring peace, but a sword.” - Matthew 10:34

There is no doubt in my mind that Dean has a messianic arc. Titles attached to
Dean such as ‘The Righteous Man’, ‘The Michael Sword’ and ‘Firewall Between
Light and Darkness’ imply that Dean is a Chosen One. A Savior. In the case of 
The Righteous Man and The Michael Sword, Dean serves as a literal Jesus expy as
both roles are drawn from biblical and Christological lore and take place within
a mytharc that is adapted directly from Christian religious texts, namely The
Book of Revelation.


But does viewing Dean as a messiah or Christ figure obscure or even negate the
humanity that is so integral to Dean’s character?

Absolutely not.

As far as biblical lore is concerned, there is no dichotomy between messiahship
and humanity.

In Judaism, the Messiah is a human being who will usher in The World to Come
(effectively Heaven) not through his divinity (because he is not divine) but
through what he has accomplished. In fact, a person can only be considered the
messiah after they have accomplished certain tasks. Reform Judaism views the
Messiah not as a singular individual, but rather as a zeitgeist that will be
brought about through the collective efforts of Humanity.

Though Christianity believes Jesus to be the messiah and the incarnation of God,
it also believes that Jesus was both fully divine and fully human (two natures
coexisting equally).  Ancient Christianity was brimming with so-called
‘heresies’ that viewed Jesus as having a lesser form divinity (Aranianism), to
be a human being who later became divine (Adoptionism), or as a human being who
was never divine (Psilanthropism). Jesus is also referred to as The Son of Man,
a title that originates from The Jewish scriptures where it refers exclusively
to Humanity.

Dean’s humanity does not negate the idea of him being a messianic figure; it is
a necessary aspect of it.

Lore aside, there is another way in which Dean’s Humanity goes hand in hand with
his messiahship: It allows Dean to stand in direct opposition to God and The
Angels. This is a good thing and not at all contradictory as one would expect
because God and the angels are effectively malicious beings.

Chuck is a deadbeat father at best and a willfully negligent Creator at worst.


> Chuck/God: I am not hiding. I am just done watching my experiments’ failures.
> (11.20)
> 
> Joshua: [God] knows what the angels are doing. He knows that the Apocalypse
> has begun. He just doesn’t think it’s his problem.(5.16)

The angels are corrupt bureaucrats who have no issue wasting human lives for
their purposes.


> Zachariah: Well… you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs. In this
> case… truckloads of eggs, but you get the picture. Look… it happens. This
> isn’t the first planetary enema we’ve delivered. (4.22)
> 
> Naomi: There was that day, back in Egypt, not so long ago, where we slew every
> first-born infant whose door wasn’t splashed with lamb’s blood. And that was
> just PR. (8.21)

The angels view Humanity as something base and vermin-like. Something that is
inherently beneath them. Not even Dean who is their Chosen One is above their
ridicule. 

> Zachariah: You [Dean] are nothing but a maggot inside a worm’s ass. (5.18)
> 
> Michael: You [Dean] little maggot. You are no longer a part of this story!
> (5.22)

This mixture of pride and self-righteousness makes Heaven something that needs
to be opposed and Dean does just that by asserting his Humanity, most
specifically, his Secular-Humanism.


Dean is an atheist. His atheism is mainly rooted in the philosophical argument
of The Problem of Evil: If God exists and if God is an all-knowing,
all-powerful, all-benevolent entity how can there be evil and suffering in the
world? Dean’s answer to that question is that God is either fundamentally flawed
or does not exist.

> Dean: See, this is why I can’t get behind God. If he doesn’t exist, fine. Bad
> crap happens to good people. That’s how it is. There’s no rhyme or reason –
> just random, horrible, evil – I get it, okay. I can roll with that. But if he
> is out there, what’s wrong with him?(4.02)

Though Dean now has proof of God’s existence, his skepticism never the less
still exists. He is critical of the nature of God and always holds God
accountable for his negligence towards Creation.

> Dean: You did nothing. People pray to you. People build churches for you. They
> fight wars in your name, and you did nothing.
> 
> 
> Chuck: You’re frustrated. I get it. Believe me, I was hands-on – Real hands-on
> for ages. I was so sure if I kept stepping in, teaching, punishing, that these
> beautiful creatures that I created would grow up. But it only stayed the same.
> And I saw that I needed to step away and let my baby find its way. Being
> overinvolved is no longer parenting. It’s enabling.
> 
> Dean: But it didn’t get better. 
> 
> Chuck: Well, I’ve been mulling it over. And from where I sit, I think it has.
> 
> Dean: Well, from where I sit, it feels like you left us and you’re trying to
> justify it. (11.21)

Dean’s skepticism also allows him to combat the concepts of The Will of God
and/or Destiny, ideas that are frequently evoked by angels and other
supernatural beings to justify the death of the innocent.


> Dean: Destiny? Don’t give me that “holy” crap. Destiny, God’s plan… It’s all a
> bunch of lies, you poor, stupid son of a bitch! It’s just a way for your
> bosses to keep me and keep you in line! You know what’s real? People, families
> – that’s real. And you’re gonna watch them all burn? (4.22)
> 
> 
> Dean: Give me a break. I’ve spent my whole life fighting that crap. There’s no
> such thing as destiny, just like there was no apocalypse – just a bunch of
> stuck-up mooks who didn’t want us human slaves asking questions. Well, I say
> the little girl lives. (6.11)

Most importantly, Dean’s skepticism encourages him to embrace and value personal
agency.  


> Michael: You think you know better than my father? One unimportant little man.
> What makes you think you get to choose?
> 
> Dean: Because I got to believe that I can choose what I do with my unimportant
> little life. (5.13)

Dean fully embraces the idea of Free Will. That Individuals are not pre-ordained
to commit certain actions or have certain events befall them. This stands in
direct opposition to the philosophy of determinism expressed by both the angels
and God and it has saved the world, first by stopping the battle between Michael
and Lucifer and later by mending the relationship between Amara and Chuck.



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#celebratingdean #dean love club #dean winchester #divine!dean #spn meta #so
this was going to be a lot longer but I cut it down...a lot #I know to some
people this might not make a lot of sense #but when I look at Dean killing
Zachariah I see him not just keeping to his word that he would kill
Zachariah #but I see him taking on the status quo of heaven in all it's
maltheism #and breaking the chains divinely mandated fate #and the fact that
Dean even COULD kill him in the first place #when it was canon that only another
angel could kill an angel #and the fact that Dean wasn't killed himself standing
mere inches away from exploding angel grace #when other have been
horrifically injured just LOOKING at it #I think implies that what Dean did was
messianic in nature #he's the son of man #the saint of blasphemey #he's not here
to rule heaven but tear it down brick by brick #the righteous son of man 


dying-suffering-french-stalkers:

> leico:
> 
> > i dont remember canon but i have very strong opinions about everything



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spineless-lobster:

> I am not the divine masculine or the divine feminine I am the divine comedy
> and you will address me as such




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syzygy-yzygy:

> Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it
> depicts anything that strays away from the norm you’re comfortable with or
> depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and
> anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and
> making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a
> nuanced and controlled perspective?



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theballmighty:

> aokozaki:
> 
> > arcueidbrunestud:
> > 
> > > kind of obsessed with my dad’s friend who apparently goes back to being a
> > > Buddhist whenever he gets a divorce
> > 
> > [gets divorced] Alright, that’s it! No more worldly desire! [sees another
> > beautiful woman] Well… unless?
> 
> I love that it’s apparently happened enough times that it’s a cycle. Almost
> like…



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alaynestone:

> sirendean:
> 
> > The righteous man who begins it is the only one who can finish it.
> 
> ink-runs:
> 
> #my quasi-divine superhuman mediator between humanity and god #demons are
> already a step into the worst places humanity can go but it’s not that
> different #if sam’s the demon messiah#dean’s his mary; protector of his
> humanity simply by existing #miracles attributed to dean winchester are
> created by the god with a soft spot for him #he’s a messiah too but just not
> the kind to be sung abt #bc he can be replaced #his life story tbh#a fixture
> for everything else #perfect human #in every literal way #and it sucks



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#lazarus insp #the righteous son of man #dean winchester 


thelist:

>  * 4x16 on the head of a pin
>  * alexandre cabanel’s fallen angel



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gyossaith:

> Detail of “The Man of Sorrows” by Hans Memling, edited by Robin Isely.



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#lazarus insp 


decreation:

> Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Memory of
> Tlatelolco’ by Rosario Castellanos



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#lazarus insp 


saltbind:

> i think that when dean the ‘righteous man’ broke the first seal in hell that
> every statue of the virgin mary should have started crying blood
> 
> add that bit of american gothic to the fourth and fifth seasons by having
> every christian zealot preaching about the end times wherever they go and
> having them be RIGHT
> 
> i want crucifixes inverting themselves when sam walks past them and roadside
> crosses bursting into flames when they drive by. i want priests to flinch away
> from sam and weep over dean. i want sam getting stigmata but in the reverse
> order to what christ received the wounds in. i want dean to find that beer and
> whiskey turn to holy water in his mouth and touching sam seems to burn them
> both! i want them to take the fucked up religious horror to its logical
> extreme!



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peggybrandt:

> The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh



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