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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5124599" data-attributes="member: 63706">What you believe about God says more about your nature than the nature of God.[ATTACH=full]366144[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]366145[/ATTACH]I like some of the messages in Fight Club. What Tyler is saying here is an indictment of the sickness of a society that allows men to abandon their families. The sickness of those men for thinking that it&#039;s ok. His statement reveals his anger at his father, and the rest of the film shows that he is expressing that anger by lashing out at society.Tyler&#039;s statements are not an indictment of God, because a loving God would not force people to do what&#039;s right. He gives them the knowledge of right and wrong, and the freedom to choose to do what&#039;s right or not, and live, or die, with the consequences. On a deeper level, Tyler feels abandoned, and those who feel abandoned can&#039;t help but question what they did wrong, or why it is that they are so unlovable. Tyler isn&#039;t really saying God hates us, he&#039;s saying he believes he is so unlovable that not even God could love him. His later adventures have a streak of messiah complex through them. He wants to save people from debt slavery, and his motivation for doing so is clearly to earn the affections of the God he believes hates him.In the end, the narrator, resolves these conflicts by both rejecting and integrating the Tyler aspect of himself, the Jungian concept of Shadow Integration. By doing this, the narrator expresses that he has learned to accept himself, and the fact that he is worthy of love.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 5124599, member: 63706"] What you believe about God says more about your nature than the nature of God. [ATTACH type="full"]366144[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]366145[/ATTACH] I like some of the messages in Fight Club. What Tyler is saying here is an indictment of the sickness of a society that allows men to abandon their families. The sickness of those men for thinking that it's ok. His statement reveals his anger at his father, and the rest of the film shows that he is expressing that anger by lashing out at society. Tyler's statements are not an indictment of God, because a loving God would not force people to do what's right. He gives them the knowledge of right and wrong, and the freedom to choose to do what's right or not, and live, or die, with the consequences. On a deeper level, Tyler feels abandoned, and those who feel abandoned can't help but question what they did wrong, or why it is that they are so unlovable. Tyler isn't really saying God hates us, he's saying he believes he is so unlovable that not even God could love him. His later adventures have a streak of messiah complex through them. He wants to save people from debt slavery, and his motivation for doing so is clearly to earn the affections of the God he believes hates him. In the end, the narrator, resolves these conflicts by both rejecting and integrating the Tyler aspect of himself, the Jungian concept of Shadow Integration. By doing this, the narrator expresses that he has learned to accept himself, and the fact that he is worthy of love. [/QUOTE]

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