Antithetical to the Soul

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One idea was to examine what rationales actually mean to people. What specifically makes something going too far or not and why? It's explained later, but I'd rather save face in the meantime. It's all very tacky and it gets darker.
It's later described as being antithetical to the 'soul'. The idea being to pose a question from a religious perspective: upon consideration of exiting religion, what value is the concept of the soul? Is there some valuable concept a person is giving up by becoming atheist?

Although that may be an obvious 'NO' to atheists, it's a good question to pose for the sake of those who might wonder. I didn't pose the question in the most tactful manner, but that's part of the general darkness.


The darkness: Much of the work involves portraying an image of evil or bad, to work in three ways:

1. pose worst-case scenarios of leaving religion that are so bad, they are satire on religious fears of leaving. (by expressing very cynical, dark views)
2. surprisingly to some might be that it's posing the scariest warning to those considering a journey of adapting to atheism from a position of having a deep emotional connection to God, rather than assuming that any emotional connection to God is imaginary. Present the prospect of loss as an expected cost of the process of leaving for truth - advancement of mankind - etc. (I related it to the cost of a pioneer trek.)
3. artistically express the emotional emptiness and loss of something once important and meaningful becoming a cruel joke on life. Express deep ugliness in character as a reflection on the pain of the desperation in betrayal and lies one might feel in leaving the LDS Church that was once beautiful and glorious. Express a ruined childhood. Express a purging of the heart, and the association of goodness, virtue, and the holy with a dirty, profane lie.
• Even the funny stuff is not really funny. It's an act to demonstrate a loss of empathy, honor, solemnity, and inner truth, self-worth, and beauty. It's meant to be a very sad, tragic journey of shameless spite and sarcasm - a horrific reinterpretation of a life once valued.
• The casual, apathetic, flippant attitude towards typically serious things should not be funny. It should be disturbing.
• Those who stole it probably don't get it.

This dark aspect of it is to be an artistic representation of a defiantly unique proposition: literary, emo art from an atheist. How well I accomplished that is up to the audience.