This post is a collaboration with SnippetTee, redball, John Sato, and Foshizzel (who provided pictures).

draggle: This week’s episode of Queen’s Blade thoughtfully explores a topic relevant in modern life: the conflict between faith and science.

The religious order of Queen’s Blade practices a form of asceticism in which the worshiper obtains divine union with God through ritual. In this ritual, the practitioner feels the breath of God and experiences true freedom, albeit momentarily, through the act of lifting her skirt. (The God of Queen’s Blade is male, so men are unable to experience the divine union and are hence fated to be tossed with the chaff into the lake of unquenchable fire). Continue reading →