He just wanted to be cool

The way "The Damnation of Theron Ware" ended playing out was no much how I imagined. As much as I sometimes moan and complain about unlikeable characters at times though, I found Theron's fall from reader's grace, as well as the grace of his friends, quite a nice development in keeping the plot interesting. To me Theron's Ware's state of mentality was perfect in it's simplicity, and his progression through the book tells about the dangers of presenting advanced ideas to simple people, that maybe sometimes the enlightenment of the world is a dangerous endeavor.
By sharing all these advanced views on the true meanings and interpretation of religion, poor simple Theron Ware's head got carried away on thoughts too big for him to fully understand and apply to his life and it ended up scrapping his moral code and causing him to lose all of his friends. These friends all the while saying "Oh jeez no I didn't mean for you to... oh why would you do that I just meant..." It rings a true chord for anybody who has ever given a child an idea and had them just get carried away with it. Within lots of amazing new ideas about philosophy and religion being expressed in this book I get the feeling that sometimes the average church going public isn't ready for an eye opening philosophical discussion, and to some extent their ignorance is bliss.

Theron Ware was sort of our everyman, not perfect, but a priestly man with a wife and a house. His ignorance of these new ideas kept him somewhere in a pious cocoon, until Ledsmar Celia and Forbes and Soulsby unbarred the gates and he ran into some train tracks really. Maybe people shouldn't be submersed in new ideas until they develop them themselves and are mature and stable enough in their life to handle them, because for Theron Ware what he understood about his God and religion was the only thing anchoring him to a decent life.