Saffiremoon21-Not to worry, this one's fun and lighthearted…wait, no it's not. Number six in going to be funny though. Right now it sucks cause there's no point to it, it's not even entertainingly pointless. But it's 'Avenue' and that was hard. But I have a plan…and it involves stripper names…:)
Amazonian Anime Queen-I'm glad that me being a year older makes you feel better. How would you feel if I was younger than you I wonder, lol. Angst is fun to write (that sounds awful, I know). I don't know why, maybe it's all the metaphors you can use with out being totally cliché, lol. :)
The Air Alchemist-Yes it was…but if you read carefully enough you can tell the drabble is actually about Roy's fear of spiders XD. :)
Maylin-Chan-The tragedy of war. Have you ever seen Grave of the Fireflies? Now that's sad war movie. :)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
#5 Heavenly Spirit
She had never thought much about religion. It wasn't a thought worth her time. There were too many non-spiritual matters that required her full attention.
Roy was an atheist, but most alchemists were. Something about understanding the world in such a scientific way must have drained away any spiritual faith they'd had.
She had always thought there was something, but she never elaborated anymore on it… until Roy's battle with Bradley.
When she'd found him, bloody and unmoving she had cursed the gods for doing this to him, to her.
There were no gods that protected those in need, she concluded. There was no glowing being who'd come and save Roy.
The only one there was her.
She got him to a hospital.
She had taken care of him as he recovered.
No gods had saved Roy, she had.
And that's where her belief now stood. Whether or not there was a god, gods, or goddess, they didn't deserve the faith of the masses, masses that saw these gods as their saviors, who help those in need.
Gods did not save people.
People saved people.
Heavenly spirit be damned.
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