'House' Fan Columnist: True Lies

This week's House covers familiar territory, but in the best way possible. We've seen House renounce faith many times in episodes like  "Damned if You Do," "House vs. God" and "Unfaithful," (which was also written by Hoselton) but this time things are different. All those episodes were written when House was unhappy. This season, House is actually in a good mood. Could House's new lease on life change his stubborn principles? This week we get a window into how his perspective on faith and truth have been shaped by his current relationship. As an added bonus, we get two other relationships to compare and contrast in this season's strongest episode, "Small Sacrifices."  POTWThis week's patient made a bargain with God three years ago to save his daughter for the bargain price of annual crucifixions. House, of course, is chomping at the bit in attempts to bring his faithful patient over to the dark side. House's mission in life seems to be converting those that believe things he considers to be idiotic and disprovable. He can't fathom that anyone would believe in something so purely and unselfishly. When House attempts to disprove what the patient sees as fact, that God does exist, House gets what he always gets: another manipulation fitting of the patient's beliefs. We've seen it in "Damned if You Do," "Here, Kitty" and even in "Love Hurts." Remember when Cameron and House went on their date and she told him if he treated her like garbage it meant he loved her, and if he was nice to her, it meant he was getting in touch with his feelings? Same thing. God is either extremely merciful in his existence, or something terrible will happen and it is God's way of punishing you for not living for him. Either way, the patient is never won over.

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