"Which honestly sounds like it was for the best. Asher and Lev seem like good people."

"I mean I think by definition they're evil. Due to all the rebellion against God."

"If he's all powerful, he can handle a bit of rebellion."

"I mean he can handle it, he's going to handle it by torturing us with the absence of God for eternity. Also maybe fire and brimstone, people go back and forth on that."

"I can't say I'm likely to be missing his company."

"The weirdest thing about Cascadia is that here you can just do things."

"It's very strange! It's just 'this is your decision' and, like, is it?"

"It generally is! I'm not sure how to handle it, I don't think I've ever made this many choices in my life before."

"I appreciate the Cascadian love of Freedom even if it is baffling sometimes."

"I was a kid, and then I lived in an ex-gay institution for two years, and then I got married, and now people are expecting me to choose my own meals like that's a thing I've ever been qualified to do."

"Ex-gay?"

"Trying to make gay people straight and people who do weird gender things normal."

"...the more I hear about Gilead, the less I'm sure that culture has ever considered how people are."

"I mean, Gilead has way fewer gay people than Cascadia."

"...does it though? Does it actually have less people attracted to their own sex because I highly doubt that."

"...it's hard to tell how many people were repressed but I don't like saying people have secret preferences they don't know about, because Gileadites like saying I have the secret preference I don't know about to go back to my husband and devote myself to keeping the house tidy and have dead babies seven through twelve."

"That's fair. But in my experience most people actually are, at least a bit? And I have yet to see a Gileadite institution that deals with people as they are and not as how they want them to be?"

"Well, you know, God wants you to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect."

"That's-- there's 'having ideals' and then there's 'expecting literal perfection.'"

"Well, you can always be forgiven. If you're not perfect. God always forgives."

"...that's the first positive trait of His I've heard."

"He did create everything which is popularly considered to be a good idea."

"There should probably be points docked because of the design flaws though."

"I probably wouldn't do nearly so well if I had to rush it together in six days. --Besides, a lot of the flaws are generally considered to be humans' fault."

"And who's idea was it to do it in six days anyway?"