Religion is bad, M'kay?

[PogueX]

It could be worse, you could be playing the Xenogears

that game and religion....wow

[CyrilLucifer]

It could be worse, you could be playing the Xenogears

Forgive the tangent, but Xenogears isn't that bad. A lot of people focus on the fact that its main plot does have a lot of negativity towards religion due to circumstance, but it's really just the same message as FFXIV. Extremism and using religion as a front for for power is bad, but religion itself isn't evil. Hence why you have Sophia, Margie, and Billy who are shown to genuinely love and care for the people, as do many of the lower members of Ethos. They bring aid, comfort, kindness, and acceptance to the average person.

If anything, Xenogears has a rather positive overall view on religion, given the themes of forgiveness by God regardless of atrocities.