Swan Tower - TV musings: Bones

And that understanding comes and goes based on the writers' desire for conflict, so that she condescendingly "understands" say, the behavior of pony-play fetishists, while insulting Booth's religion to his face.

THANK YOU. I've always had big issues with her being able to rationalize practices that are taboo to us, while being so insulting toward religion, being as religion is always a big part of any culture. If she doesn't believe herself, she should at least respect that other people do, and it's important to them.

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As it's been pointed out elsewhere in the comments, she's not even insulting toward religion when the religious group in question is non-white minority (Voudoun, Islam, etc). That doesn't make either her or the writers look good.

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True. She basically seems mostly hostile towards Christianity, really, though I want to say there was at least one other religion she slammed in the show. Hmmm. Can't remember, though.

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I've never seen the problem with this. To her, something like Voudoun is something she treats intellectually, whereas Christianity she treats personally.

In the same way, quantum mechanics don't worry about quantum effects in everyday life, even if they are studying and publishing papers on them.

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Why would she treat Christianity more personally than Voudoun or any other religion, though?

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Because she was raised in a nominally christian nation.

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Still, if we're going to go by the personality the writers try to establish for her, that shouldn't and wouldn't matter.

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The way to explain her attitude in a consistent fashion is to say, she has rabid-atheist contempt for all religion, but condescendingly makes an exception for what Those Other (Non-White) People believe, for reasons of bad cultural relativism.

If that's the case, her cultural anthropology professors should have kicked her ass from one side of this planet to the other.

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Or, she's incredibly biased against Christianity due to lingering personal prejudices that she stubbornly refuses to acknowledge or engage, which is entirely possible-- it's not like that's an uncommon trait in people, even academics.

I stopped watching the show mighty quick because it bored my, though.

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