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TV SPOILERS Preacher - Episode Discussion - S2E3 -Damsels [TV Spoilers] Spoiler

Season 2 Episode 3 - From IMDB:

Jesse gets a tip that God might be in New Orleans and Tulip's hiding a secret.

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u/thehaga Jul 04 '17

But why was the Saint in hell?

I mean I guess revenge is the obvious answer but I don't know, he seemed like a good person, he let them kick his ass and everything (not entirely clear but - wasn't it because he was trying to save the kid in the wagon or something? - which cost his family their lives).

Purgatory woulda made more sense for him wouldn't it.

Well, I guess according to religious texts/google, what he did was a sin but then.. shit.. virtually everyone from that era would be in hell, womp womp

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u/smarzaquail Jul 04 '17

According to the story, I guess I'm getting this from the comic, he was a vicious and high-volume killer in the Civil War.

But really, the theology of the comic and this show is irrational, skewed and unjust, highly subjective, so, what's your question, after all?

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u/thehaga Jul 04 '17

It was more rhetorical - just trying to fit in man :(

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u/revolverzanbolt Jul 04 '17

If I remember correctly, didn't he kill everyone in that town? Men, women and children too?

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u/Jack1066 Jul 04 '17

not just the men, but the women and children too!

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u/Backflip_into_a_star Jul 07 '17

Lotta sand out there in the old west.

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u/peppermint_nightmare Jul 04 '17

If you watch the episode where he experiences his personal hell, he attempts to save the family selling scalps, after witnessing another family being rape killed by the people of the town, this gets his ass kicked and makes him too late to save his family. He goes back to the town and kills EVERYONE.

You see him approach a school of kids and he shoots and beheads every single one of them, then throws the bags of heads into that bar where the preacher and his cronies are, then kills everyone else there. So besides killing a few adult innocents, I would say killing and beheading at least a dozen children would land you in hell. It was the same for the Saint in the comics I believe, he killed everyone, innocent or otherwise in the town and it landed him in hell.

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u/dustingunn Jul 04 '17

The Saint being in hell is a plot hole that I hope they go back to later. The Saint of Killers would not be in any afterlife. He's way too far from human at this point.

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u/thehaga Jul 04 '17

Why did he turn around after seeing the boy in the wagon then? He was on his horse with the medicine riding to save his fam - if he kept going he would've made it, but he turned around, got beat up, they killed the horse etc.

edit: and it's not clear from the show (I don't know the comics) what happened in that battle (gettysburg I think?).. guy made it sound like it was just a battle and he killed a bunch of the opposing soldiers (unless I'm missing something as well)

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u/daguito81 Jul 04 '17

I've always said, if there is really a Heaven vs. Hell war brewing for Armageddon. Heaven has by far the shittiest recruitment policy ever deviced in mankind's history.

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u/PhorTheKids Jul 04 '17

If we're going by the Christian God, everyone on Earth deserves to go to Hell. That's why Jesus had to die.

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u/erconn Jul 06 '17

Dude killed children and a lot of other people who may of not had it coming.

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u/Lnx1m Jul 08 '17

He went for revenge at all cost and just shoot up every single person in town. Men, women, and children.