Warrior Nun Season 2: The Loss of Faith
The moral case for understanding what happens when you lose faith in what you believe.
Author’s Note: If you’re interested in reading about season one first, check out Warrior Nun and Belief as a Weapon.
We all have doubts sometimes.
Moments when we aren't quite sure that the things we believe are true. Often because we see something or do something which causes us to question what we're doing and whether we're going to achieve the goals we want. In times of doubt, anything can happen. These doubts can go away and we can feel secure again, or they can grow and become worse. If whatever we come to doubt is reinforced by something else, that can be a terrible thing. When you have these moments and they keep coming up, you're likely to lose focus. To come to a point where you can give up on everything you've ever believed. You become resentful of the fact that you ever believed things in the first place. After all, your willingness to believe things like this caused you to fail to see something that in looking back on it, this seems rather obvious.
Resentment like that can only grow if it's not somehow headed off before it gets too bad. Part of you can come to want to destroy what made you believe them. Tear down the things which made you believe. More than that though you can want to hurt anyone who still believes what you've come to understand now is nonsense. Or so your resentment would have you think at the very least. This creates a terrible cycle within you. It might even get to the point that you're willing to believe anything which even tries to contradict such terrible ideas. You may even blindly follow anyone who claims to give you the purpose which has been lost thanks to your previous belief. Although the problem with that being you've simply exchanged one set of beliefs for another.
Warrior Nun's second season is very much about what happens when you abandon one belief in favour of another. Ava may have learned how powerful belief can be if you're willing to embrace it fully, but as it turns out even those people who helped her come to that realization don't know everything. That even their understanding of what they believe has some problems. Things they didn't understand about why they were doing the things they were doing. Which of course leads to the painful realization that at least some of their faith has been misplaced. That simply going along with what they think isn't the right way to go about things.
As a result, they have scattered and gone into hiding. Trying to find a way to come to terms with what they now understand wasn't true. Yet at the same time they struggle with the fact that someone has come along who seems to have all the answers. A saviour of sorts who makes people feel as though they are on the right path, regardless of whether that's actually true. So they have to find a way to overcome the doubts which has gotten into their heads.
It's a difficult process but an important one none the less. Take the time to check out Warrior Nun's second season as soon as you can.
Check out Warrior Nun’s second season on Netflix.