I have some comments and questions about the episode "Flight Path." Jordan made a comment in the meeting room that caught my attention, but I'm not exactly sure what he said. He and Eli had been talking about Eli's visions, and Jordan mentioned something about people believing that Earth was made in six days and that a carpenter's son could walk on water. And then, to my surprise, I thought Jordan said that he himself believed it.
Unless I misunderstood, that comment surprised me because normally Hollywood would never allow a fictional character to say that.
No matter what Jordan said--even if he had said that he DIDN'T believe it--it was a surprising comment to make. Why? Because if he did admit it, both Victor Garber and the shows' writers and producers would get flack from people who weren't fundamentalist Christians. If Jordan had said the opposite, he would have gotten complaints from evangelicals complaining that, "Oh, here's Hollywood again, making fun of us." It's a no-win situation.
Now for a different but related topic. The parents of the girl in the coma kept saying that if their daughter's heart was given to a woman who was an atheist, that the heart would end up burning in hell. Whoever wrote this dialogue doesn't know theology very well. In Christianity, it's your soul that is going to heaven, not your entire body! Your body returns to ashes! There may be some small sects that believe your entire body goes to heaven, but none of the mainline Christians I know believe that. Or is this some new concept of Christianity of which I am not aware? (I'm Catholic, by the way, and Catholics do not believe in your whole body ascending into heaven. That just happened with Jesus and Mary, no one else.)
Other than these two conversations, I enjoyed the episode.