This was the most spot-on indictment of religion I've ever seen

The world we live in is one in which random horrible things happen to people all of the time, and often quite good, innocent, and nice people. Our brains can't believe that the universe could be so cruel and unjust, and so we invent reasons why bad things happen to good people. God works in mysterious ways. Everyone is a sinner, so when bad things happen, people deserve it. There is some "plan" that we don't know about. These are a way for us to blame the victims - to pull back ourselves from them, to observe their awful fate but not step in.

Organized religion comes at the problem from a position of "the universe makes sense", and therefore has to adopt the position that people have the terrible things coming. (and when bad things happen to obviously innocent people, they have to say that we are victims of our original sin - the whole world is bad, no one is innocent, we all have it coming). It is a terrible, anti-human, cruel act of victim-blaming, it appeals to people with moral superiority complexes, and it allows organized religion to beat down on people who are having problems. In this show, the religion realizes that the terrible thing happening to a true innocent will mean they will have to adopt original sin (or hide the event). But that will make them "like Christianity" in the words of their leader.

The story of a condemnatory, prudish, Pecksniff of a religion arising just because the world is an awful place where kind people often have bad things happen to them is an excellent allegory for the exact same thing happening in our real world.

Finally, we come to the proper way to deal with bad things happening to people - we should care for them, protect them, wrap ourselves around them to try to keep the world from hurting them. We shouldn't revel in their misfortune, judge them, or try to build violent power out of our hurtful and capricious world. We should band together, stand on our feet, fight the f*ing evil that would hurt our fellow humans, and say we are in this together.

A really great message . . .