There’s a lot of religious imagery in the cult of the lambs fandom, which is great and all, but do you know what we need more of? RELIGIOUS GUILT.
I want to see the lamb read the scriptures over and over and over to ingrain them into their brain. I want to see them freak out and get on their knees when they believe they’ve done someone wrong, and PRAY for repentance. I want to see them talk to the one who waits and thank him over and over again and say they’re not worthy and they need to do better and better and better. They feel at any moment that they do not act righteously in his name that they have to fix it. They don’t deserve a second chance, to be chosen. I want to see them doubt him and question him and then snap themselves out of it, so when they were betrayed they felt shocked, but deep down they knew.
I understand the point of cotl is more of “you aren’t above the law, YOU ARE the law” and that the lamb was more unwilling if anything.
but isn’t that just it? Rug-burned scraped knees praying for forgiveness because you were given a second chance, as painful as it is, but the fact you were salvaged at all. That you want to be worthy of the love and prove that it wasn’t mistaken, you did everything right. An unwilling participant, but who else loved you? Who else cared for you? God loves you, but not enough to save you. And that’s why you must free him, that at last you can rest.
The lamb was so blinded by their guilt, seen as perhaps love, that for a moment, even a second,
they took off their crown.