Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-38339538-20190907012852

BlackfootFerret wrote: I did cheer towards the beginning of the movie, when the Era 3 symbol appeared, with Pink Diamond's triangle at the top.

And there was plenty of imagry that compared Steven to Jesus. That core theory is pretty locked down, now.

Uncle Joe, a preacher himself, made me (the black sheep intellectual skeptic of the family) promise to read the entire Bible years ago. And I finally got around to it in audiobooks at work while researching Steven Universe.

The New Testament talks about The Four Living Creatures, bizarre Final Fantasy-like things that together form the wheel the carries God around through the world. And they have all kinds of gemstones in their construction.

There are tales of several smaller, equally weird Angels that defy human description. But all of them have one thing in common: They all have a gemstone in their construction somewhere, prominently displayed.

And there's even one who has several gemstones, each on a different colored layer, that looks very much like a Steven Universe style fusion.

It does seem suggested that the Four Living Creatures are called that, because they're the only ones who are truly alive. And the angels are each animated by the borrowed power of one or more of them.

This is totally what the Diamonds are doing in Steven Universe, using bits of themselves to create the gems.

The Era 2 Great Diamond Authority (those symbol is even on the dollar bill) is defintely designed to represent what Modern Religion looks like today. Distant. Intolerant. Uncaring. Violent.

Having Jesus himself rebelling against his own religion, in the hopes of returning Love and Compassion to the Great Diamond Authority, is one of the most powerful story arcs in the show.

Ferret, I think you should share this theory with the Steven Universe subreddit when you have the time. They're typically more accepting of differing theories then the FNaF subreddit.