My mother was raised Pentacostal and went to Southern Baptist churches later in her life. My father was a rampaging atheist who bit his tongue in two the entire time my mother raised my sister and I Methodist, which didn't take because we hated her choice of church (not the Methodists, the vast majority of whom are perfectly nice and good people, but she took us to a "rich" church with a good choir and a whole bunch of snooty rich people who weren't interested in talking to "the poor people," aka us, and where the minister was accused of trying to murder his wife). (Maybe it also didn't take because we noticed that Dad never went to church? After they divorced he stopped biting his tongue and offered a lot of hot takes on the topic of religion.) I was a Unitarian (CUUPS!) for a while, read a bunch on Christianity for a while, then converted to Judaism.
In other words, maybe I don't count, either.
Disclaimer aside: My guess would be that they gasped because "Good Omens" used the crucifixion in what's practically a throwaway joke in a comedy, instead of treating it with the solemnity or importance that it deserves.
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My mother was raised Pentacostal and went to Southern Baptist churches later in her life. My father was a rampaging atheist who bit his tongue in two the entire time my mother raised my sister and I Methodist, which didn't take because we hated her choice of church (not the Methodists, the vast majority of whom are perfectly nice and good people, but she took us to a "rich" church with a good choir and a whole bunch of snooty rich people who weren't interested in talking to "the poor people," aka us, and where the minister was accused of trying to murder his wife). (Maybe it also didn't take because we noticed that Dad never went to church? After they divorced he stopped biting his tongue and offered a lot of hot takes on the topic of religion.) I was a Unitarian (CUUPS!) for a while, read a bunch on Christianity for a while, then converted to Judaism.
In other words, maybe I don't count, either.
Disclaimer aside: My guess would be that they gasped because "Good Omens" used the crucifixion in what's practically a throwaway joke in a comedy, instead of treating it with the solemnity or importance that it deserves.