>>2965798Regarding that theory about our God, I could see that being the case. It seems to be a theme in SEL that Lain's actions have unwanted consequences, and I imagine the same might be true for our God.
About the theology, from the Christianity point of view, Lain is very much a Jesus figure. Interpreting Masami as the father figure, God in heaven(the wired), creating Lain to exist in the mortal realm as a human, but with divine powers, much like Jesus. Interpreted like this, maybe the global unconsciousness, represented through Lain's sister, is the holy spirit. However, at the end of the show, Masumi is shown to be powerless at the hands of Lain, that doesn't fit with this interpretation.
Hindus (and Buddhists, since the two religions agree on this) have a somewhat different interpretation of gods than we do in the west. In these religions, gods are often depicted as having many arms or legs, not to imply they literally have many arms, but to grasp at the idea of a god as a force of the universe, able to be in many places and do many things at the same time. Lain certainly seems to have this property, existing everywhere in the wired. There also exists in Buddhism the idea that, through learning and meditation, an individual can become enlightened and can in extraordinary cases recieve divine powers, as in the case of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy. It /might/ be that Lain was indeed a perfectly normal human girl at the beginning of the series, and through enlightening and some extraordinary circumstances, gained her godhood in this way. That would run contrary to the idea that Lain was a goddess all along and only woke up to this fact later on. In my opinion though, there's probably truth in both these perspectives.
