Well that's just it. It did feel like leveling in skyrim or D&D or something (or I suppose, more to the point Borderlands or Destiny), but I guess that I felt the use of such overt gamification was a bit laughable. I dunno exactly how to explain it. I guess I just am skeptical of a society getting to the point where it straight up tells people "YOU'VE LEVELED UP" in an unironic fashion. I know gamification can be quite powerful, but this just didn't seem like an example of how real world gamification would work in a world like that. I know it was supposed to be an absurdist piece in general, but I don't see a church phrasing things with quite that overtly "gamey" of terms outside of outreach for little kids. I don't know, maybe that makes me to cynical, to optimistic, or both at the same time.