Why God is Evil in Season 15 of Supernatural
Yes, you get it right. The last villain to defeat is God. Err-too much to digest for theist folks.
The last episode of season 14 of dark fantasy drama Supernatural showed Sam’s unsuccessful attempt to kill God.
But why? Why it has to end this way?
As we all know that current season will be the last season of our favorite show and the end should tie some knots.
We cannot deny that Winchesters are stuck in a place. They cannot die. They cannot kill all the monsters either in one lifespan. Shortcuts do not work as we saw it in previous seasons.
After all, monsters exist for a reason. Evil, precisely, exist for a reason.
That brings us back to the last monster of the show-God.
As put forward by Epicurus, there is a logical problem of Evil. According to him, evil cannot exist alongside with a God with unlimited knowledge, power, and benevolence, but it does which means such a God cannot exist. For a long time, and even today, philosophers argue that whether God allowed Evil purposely or does it just escaped pass him.
For all practical purposes, God exist and evil exist too. And as implied by historical evidence, we might check off benevolence as a personality trait of God.
Usually, Supernatural does not restrict itself to one mythology or religion. Up till the end of season 3, it was inclusive of all faiths and believes, but then entered the Angel in a trench coat and the lore got quite Abrahamic for a while.
The main question here is what to do with an evil God?
Not only Winchesters, but all of us. Is it easy to live with the idea that there is a destiny, but it will not be for good or any greater good at all? Can we live knowing that we might just be fighting with the destiny set by God? Dean and Sam are contemplating the same question. Is the fight worth it now?
It is.
The answer lies in a cylinder pushed by Chrysippus some two hundred years before Christ. Chrysippus proposed that if you roll a cylinder downhill, there would be two types of causes working here.
- One is the act of pushing-the auxiliary or the external cause
- Second the round shape of cylinder-the primary or the internal cause
Eventually it was the internal and external causes both which caused the cylinder to roll. Similarly, the concept of internal causes, when applied to humans, becomes their nature and dispositions.
In a nutshell, destiny and freewill can co-exist together.
Supernatural also gave us a big hint to this conclusion. In ‘Moriah’, Sam’s shot eventually hurt both of them. If there was something as destiny through and through, that act of Sam could not be predestined because God/Chuck would never plan to hurt himself. A wound that not only made him stuck to this world but also reduced his powers to heal himself which means Team Freewill is still in business.
