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🎉🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN CONSTANTINE 🎉🎉
he's always been my favorite (also I was gonna do Animated Constantine, but I was struggling so I apologize 😔)
Also he'll always be my top favorite ❤
real
I just know the Bruce/Zatanna/Constantine threesome ruined lives, raised the average temperature on the east coast by ten degrees, and probably relocated several ley lines
I've been thinking a lot about Constantine. The movie, not the show or comic, as I'm not really familiar with them.
Specifically, I keep thinking about the scene with him and Tilda Swindon, Gabriel, in the church near the start of the film. It's when the film first tells us that Constantine is doomed to go to Hell when he dies (since a large portion of this film is based on a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine regarding suicide). They start talking about the necessity of faith, which Constantine argues he has. But Gabriel corrects him. Constantine doesn't have faith in God, he has knowledge of God, which are very different things.
And it makes me think of how a lot of evangelical Christians try to argue that there is proof that the Christian God exists. There are alleged miracles, people who have claimed to hear His voice, accounts of near death experiences. There's a whole subset of Christian fiction that involves atheists or people of other faiths literally meeting God and being told that Christianity is the way to go.
And this all just seems very antithetical to the entire point of having faith. If you believe in God due to perceived proof, that's not faith. It's knowledge - at least from their perspective.
I don't really know where I'm going with this. It's just been swirling around in my head for a while.